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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (1859–1930) was a Scottish writer and physician. In addition to the series of stories chronicling the activities of Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr John Watson for which he is well known, Doyle wrote on a wide range of topics, both fictional and non-fictional. [1]
Title [6] [7]Date Of PublicationPeriodicalOctober 1879"Gelseminum as a Poison"20 September 1879"The American's Tale"December 1880"A Night Among the Nihilists"April 1881Sherlock Holmes (/ ˈ ʃ ɜːr l ɒ k ˈ h oʊ m z /) is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Referring to himself as a " consulting detective " in his stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs ...
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British doctor and author. He is well known because he wrote short stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes. He also wrote science fiction and historical stories. He became an agnostic by the time he left school. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University from 1876 to 1881.
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Sherlock Holmes receives a cipher message from Fred Porlock, a pseudonymous agent of Professor Moriarty. Holmes deciphers the message as a warning of a nefarious plot against one Douglas, a country gentleman residing at Birlstone House. Some minutes later, Inspector MacDonald arrives at 221B Baker Streetwith news that Douglas was murdered the night...
The Valley of Fear was first serialised in The Strand Magazine from September 1914 to May 1915. In the Strand, it was published with thirty-one illustrations by Frank Wiles. It was first published in book form by George H. Doran Company in New York on 27 February 1915, before the serialisation had finished in the Strand. The first British book edit...
Doyle crafted The Valley of Fearas "two parts and a coda". The novel has a number of major themes, including "problems of ethical ambiguity", and attempts to comment seriously on terrorist activity as profiled by American union struggles. Critics have shown how the American union struggles deal with similar issues in the contemporary political situ...
Film
Several films have adapted the book, among them: 1. The Valley of Fear (1916), a silent film starring H.A. Saintsbury and Booth Conway. 2. The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935), a British film starring Arthur Wontner as Holmes and Ian Flemingas Watson. 3. Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962), although intended to be an adaptation of The Valley of Fear, only minor elements of the story remained in the final film. 4. Sherlock Holmes and the Valley of Fear (1983), an animated film star...
Television
1. "The Case of the Pennsylvania Gun" (1954), an episode of the television series Sherlock Holmes (1954–1955) starring Ronald Howard as Holmes and Howard Marion-Crawfordas Watson. 2. "La valle della paura", episodes 1-2-3 of the Italian television series Sherlock Holmes (1968) starring Nando Gazzolo as Holmes and Gianni Bonaguraas Watson. 3. "The Crime Machine", an episode of the animated series Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century (1999–2001), with Jason Gray-Stanford voicing Holmes and John...
Radio
The Valley of Fear was the only Sherlock Holmes story not adapted for the 1930s radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and was not adapted for radio until 1960.Radio adaptations of the story include: 1. A 1960 BBC Home Service adaptation, dramatised by Michael Hardwick as part of the 1952–1969 radio series, starring Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley, and featuring Garard Greenas Inspector Mason. 2. A 1986 BBC Radio 4 adaptation starring Tim Pigott-Smith as Holmes and Andrew Hilton as...
Gregg, Robert (1 January 2007). "Valleys of fear: Policing terror in an imperial age, 1865–1925". In Grant, Kevin; Levine, Philippa; Trentmann, Frank (eds.). Beyond sovereignty. Palgrave Macmillan...Wynne, Catherine (2002). The Colonial Conan Doyle: British Imperialism, Irish Nationalism, and the Gothic. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-32005-7.Kestner, Joseph A. (1997). Sherlock's Men: Masculinity, Conan Doyle, and Cultural History. Ashgate. ISBN 978-1-85928-394-3.Conan Doyle and an Anglo-Irish Quarrel, Jane Stanford, Carrowmore, 2017, pp. 50–57.Works related to The Valley of Fearat WikisourceMedia related to The Valley of Fearat Wikimedia CommonsThe Valley of Fear at Standard EbooksThe Valley of Fear at Project Gutenberg- Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely in Dartmoor , Devon in England's West Country and follows Holmes and Watson investigating the legend of a ...
アーサー・イグナティウス・コナン・ドイル [1] [注釈 1] （ 英語: Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, KStJ, DL, [ˈɑːrθər ɪgˈneɪʃ (i)əs ˈkoʊnən / ˈkɑnən ˈdɔɪl] [9] 発音例1 発音例2, 1859年 5月22日 – 1930年 7月7日 ）は、 イギリス の 作家 、 医師 、 政治活動家 。 推理小説 ・ 歴史小説 ・ SF小説 などを多数著した。 とりわけ 『シャーロック・ホームズ』シリーズ の著者として知られる [10] 。
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