Talk:Arthur Conan Doyle
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There's a story somewhat popular among preachers that goes like this: Doyle was a practical joker. Once he sent the same telegram to twelve of his friends: "All is discovered. Flee at once." All twelve left the country.
Google turns up a number of such citations [1] (http://www.google.com/search?q=%22flee+at+once%22+arthur+conan+doyle).
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This looks like a hoax, or urban legend to me. I recall having heard something about it before, but almost every single citation I discovered turns up in a sermon, used to illustrate the well-travelled theme of guilt. The twelve friends can also be the twelve most important men in England. sjc
The plot of one of the Holmes stories, "The 'Gloria Scott'" (http://holmes-sherlock.com/sherlock/mem/glor.html), hinges on such a message. --RjLesch
Thanks! I made the story a link so page visitors can read it. I scanned through it and see exactly what you mean. However, the message in that context isn't a prank.
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There are many more citations at Google attributing the quote to Mark Twain [2] (http://www.google.com/search?q=all+discovered+flee+once+mark+twain).
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From the article:
- Doyle's close friend Dr Mohammed Ebrahim Sufi of Lucknow, a British Indian Muslim suggested him that the invention of an additional character as Sherlock Holmes' colleague and personal assistant would spice his stories up. Doyle relished Dr Sufi's idea and instantly created the character of Dr Watson.
This sounds doubtful. Can anyone provide a reference to back it up? --Paul A 08:54, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Re-adding exactly the same text does not in any sense qualify as providing a reference to back it up. --Paul A 15:50, 23 May 2004 (UTC)
Ditto. --Paul A 06:32, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
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Jean Conan Doyle
Is anyone familiar with what Copyrights to the Holmes character were held by Dame Jean Conan Doyle before her death? According to one biography her brother sold off some of the copyrights and original manuscripts in an illegal sale to an American University in order to retain his french estate. I was just hoping to beef-up the Jean Conan Doyle article with more info.
Also, pherhaps we could add more information around the legal copyrights of Conan Doyle. I know that he had to sell the copyright of A Study in Scarlet in order to get it publish and recived a total of 20 pounds for the story...but by the late 1980's Jean Conan Doyle could still axe certain Holmes publications and complained to the producers of Star Trek The Next Generation when Brent Spiner played Sherlock Holmes in a holodeck episode.
1929 ban
Quote from the article:His work on this topic was one of the reasons that one of his short story collections, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, was banned in the Soviet Union in 1929 under the pretense of occultism.
Well, I have a book, published in the Soviet Union in Russian in 1978 (300,000 copies), which contains this collection. I can provide more precise data about that edition if someone desire.
Therefore, even if this ban was, it was cancelled later. I'll add this into the article now. By the way, if someone will find non-wiki information about that ban, please, add a link into the article or here, because, for example, I didn't hear about that ban at all. Cmapm 19:20, 9 May 2005 (UTC)