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...It is the same dichotomy embodied in the works of De Quincey, Baudelaire, Rimbaud and later in Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, the flâneur as student of human nature, able to lose himself in the city and...
...I also call Martin Lutyens, Edwin’s great-nephew and chairman of the Lutyens Trust....
...due to open in three years’ time. admiraltyarch.co.uk Great Scotland Yard The headquarters of the Metropolitan Police from 1829 to 1890, Scotland Yard features prominently in the novels of Arthur Conan Doyle...
...“There is a considerable cost which I don’t see an obvious way around,” says Peter Doyle, a former IMF economist....
...I’m in the movie line with Woody Allen or on the streets with Popeye Doyle. The cities in our heads are from the movies. To see them on screen again is, ultimately, a kind of lucid dreaming....
...When news of the loss of HMS Hampshire reached London, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle reached for his purple inkpot....
...Doyle duly employs dead-on literary ventriloquism to illuminate the person behind his fellow Irishman’s unforgiving public persona....
...Bekonscot’s birthday celebrations are on August 5; www.bekonscot.co.uk Edwin Heathcote is the FT’s architecture correspondent ………………………………………….....
...But there are wonderful moments to be found in Mr Dick – for example, a pastiche account by Arthur Conan Doyle of “my first spiritist séance”. Contact is made with Dickens....
...These included Victorian painter Sir Edwin Landseer’s 1824 “Neptune”, which portrays a life-sized Newfoundland, a breed synonymous with bravery (estimate: $800,000-$1,200,000)....
...Doyle’s book expertly balances these two contrasting voyages of discovery to show the different forms that courage can take....
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