Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur

Booth, M., The Doctor and the Detective A Biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. New York St. Martin s (2000). 

Agatha Christie s murder mysteries Alphabet series (A is for Alibi) by Sue Grafton The Client by John Grisham Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Shining by Stephen King Watcher by Dean R. Koontz... 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, of all people, was completely taken in. The creator of Sherlock Holmes, the most logical and scientific of fictional detectives, was a firm believer in spiritualism, in spite of the fact that he was a physician by training and took great pride in his powers of observation. One day, while on rounds at an Edinburgh hospital, he stopped to examine a sick baby. He then told the child s mother that she must stop painting the baby s crib. When the startled lady asked him how... 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle went to his grave believing in fairies and spirits. One wonders what he would have said if he had known that Princess Mary s Gift Book, published two years prior to the Cottingley fairy episode, featured fairy pictures identical to the photos that had so enthralled him. Perhaps we should enlist James van Praagh to find out — after all, he talks to the dead. But I m not sure we would get an answer. For, as Houdini himself said, anyone can talk to the dead. The problem is that the dead don t talk back. 

Then in 1887 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Doyle 1981, p. 22) published several fictional cases involving Sherlock Holmes such as A Study in Scarlet in Beeton s Christmas Annual of London, where Holmes can tell at a glance different soils from each other. .. has shown me splashes upon his trousers, and told me by their color and consistence in what part of London he had received them. In 1891 in The Five Orange Pips, Holmes observed, chalk-rich soil ... 

O-R [1], kO-R [0.1] [inhibition of Forskolin-stimulated cAMP production via pO-R [26 nM], SO- R [3], kO-R [2] addictive, analgesic, antitussive, sedative, spasmolytic, toxic] Hermann Goring, WW2 Luftwaffe C-in-C, morphine addict (1925) laudanum (opium) used by Mrs Robinson in alleged murder of Bertie Robinson, allegedly plagiarized cuckolded by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (The Hound of the Thomas de Quincey (Confessions Baskervilles) eighteenth-... 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of the Engineer s Thumb ... 

Nineteenth-century medicine is characterized by investigations at the cellular level (including microbial level), the molecular level, and by even more ruthless combination of observation and hypothetical reasoning. Rational, logical methods were notably a feature by the time of late Victorian medicine. For example, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle s medical school teacher taught the system of observation and deduction that is vividly expressed in Doyle s Sherlock Holmes stories. 

The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Strand Magazine, London, 1901-1902. 

A literary mystery is also cormected to barirrm srrlfate. In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle s crime story titled A Case of Identity, a conversation between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson goes like this. 

Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet, By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle... 

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. Sherlock Holmes in A Scandal in Bohemia (1891), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is believed by many to have first popularized the application of forensic analysis through his newspaper serials originally pubhshed in 1887 featuring the fictional character Sherlock Holmes. This work is thought to have inspired many of the early forensic scientists. One of these was Frenchman Edmond Locard, who proposed that when two objects come into contact with one another, a cross-transfer of evidence occurs (1,2). This is the basis of Locard s Exchange Principle and is the foundation of how we can often use physical evidence to link or at least associate a suspect to a crime scene or a victim. Depending on the nature of the evidence, a wide range of analytical methods are used in forensic casework. 

Of course, much interest in strychnine centers on its pharmacological properties. It is a powerful convulsant, lethal to an adult human in a dose as small as 30 mg. Death comes from central respiratory failure and is preceded by violent convulsions. Strychnine is the deadly agent in many a murder story, real and imagined. One example is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle s Sherlock Holmes mystery, The Sign of the Four, in which Dr. Watson suggests the lethal agent to be a powerful vegetable alkaloid. .. some strychnine-like substance. ... 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was Scottish physician and writer. The quotation is a statement made by the character Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of Four . Chapter 6. 1890. Anderson, P. G. In Fibonacci Numbers and Them Applications, Philippou, A. N Bergum, P. G., Horadam, A. F., Eds. Reidel Publ. Dordrecht, 1986 p 2. 

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