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Improbable tales of Baskerville Hall 1Sandford, 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN SANBoström, Mattias
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 BOSStandish, Ali
Summary: "What if young Arthur Conan Doyle really went to a secret school for extraordinarily gifted children called Baskerville Hall? When a mysterious man with a pipe notices young Arthur's incredible deductive skills, Arthur's offered a spot at the esteemed Baskerville Hall and a chance to lift his family out of poverty. There Arthur makes quick friends with Irene Eagle, a girl who boldly strides...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC STACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC STAJaher, David
Summary: In 1924 the wife of a Boston surgeon came to embody the raging national debate over Spiritualism, a movement devoted to communication with the dead. Reporters dubbed her the blonde Witch of Lime Street, but she was known to her followers simply as Margery. Her most vocal advocate was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who believed so thoroughly in Margery's powers that he urged her to enter a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAGERY JAHFox, Margalit
Summary: "In this thrilling true-crime procedural, the creator of Sherlock Holmes uses his unparalleled detective skills to exonerate a German Jew wrongly convicted of murder. For all the scores of biographies of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the most famous detective in the world, there is no American book that tells this remarkable story--in which Conan Doyle becomes a real-life detective on an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.152 FOXBechtel, 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