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Authors, Scottish Authors, Scottish 19th century Biography Authors, Scottish 20th century Biography Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew) 1860-1937 Juvenile literature Chantrelle, Eugene 1834-1878 Trials, litigation, etc Characters and characteristics Detective and mystery stories Authorship Doyle, Arthur Conan 1859-1930 Holmes, Sherlock Sir Doyle, Arthur Conan 1859-1930Bechtel, Stefan
Summary: "After the American Civil War, while bodies still littered battlefields, the movement known as Spiritualism began to sweep across America as thousands of people, mostly from shock and grief, tried to make contact with the recently departed. The movement captivated Europe as well, especially England in the aftermath of the Great War and Great Influenza Epidemic...The movement's most famous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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Summary: "Everyone knows Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a unique literary character who has remained popular for over a century and is appreciated more than ever today. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small-town English doctor in the 1880s, into such a lasting success, despite the author's own attempt to escape his invention? In From Holmes to Sherlock, Swedish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 828 BOSYolen, Jane.
Summary: Picture-book biography presents the life of James Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BARRIE YOLMiller, Russell.
Summary: Arthur Conan Doyle remains one of our favorite writers; his work is read with affection--and sometimes obsession--the world over, but his life was no less fascinating than his fiction. Conan Doyle grew up in relative poverty in Edinburgh. He struggled both as a young doctor and in his early attempts to sell short stories, having only limited success until Sherlock Holmes propelled him to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN MILLycett, Andrew.
Summary: A biography of the creator of Sherlock Holmes shows how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, beginning as a small-town doctor, became a friend to the famous, a celebrated writer, and a psychic investigator.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN LYCSandford, Christopher
Summary: "When Arthur Conan Doyle was a lonely 7-year-old schoolboy at pre-prep Newington Academy in Edinburgh, a French émigré named Eugene Chantrelle was engaged there to teach Modern Languages. A few years later, Chantrelle would be hanged for the particularly grisly murder of his wife, marking the beginning of Conan Doyle's own association with some of the bloodiest crimes of the Victorian and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martins Press 2018