The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

This vivid biography, written by John Dickson Carr, a giant in the field of mystery fiction, benefits from his full access to the archives of the eminent Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—to his notebooks, diaries, press clippings, and voluminous correspondence. Like his creation Sherlock Holmes, Doyle had ‘a horror of destroying documents,’ and until his death in 1930, they accumula….Read More