Hints and tips:
...This is the wild terrain that inspired Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles: Shrubsole invites his readers to look in a different direction. “Look at this — stick of the day!”...
...They filed silently into the forest without a wave (they were national guardsmen, not Farc, according to Jairo)....
...Arthur Conan Doyle lived in Tennison Road, Norwood, setting for one of the first Sherlock Holmes stories....
...American talk show host Conan O’Brien “was almost leaping around, he was so excited”....
...When this project seems likely to be shelved, Evelyn is put to translating Conan Doyle into Spanish for a movie named Puppy of the Baskervilles....
...As Arthur Conan Doyle discovered with Sherlock Holmes, the important thing is not to kill the character off. Not only might this go unforgiven, but it also probably won’t work....
...Since then, from the burning Sahara sands to the deep forests of Amazonia, many events have transpired....
...Such adventures are nothing new: in December 1894, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (arguably the world’s first ski journalist) wrote in Strand magazine about skiing off-piste over to Arosa....
...in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World....
...Faye is a member of the “Baker Street Irregulars”, a group of Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts obsessed with the work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....
...So some do DNA analysis, others do anatomy, some people go and sit with gorillas in the forests of Burundi, and others do experiments with rats....
...(There is an entire literary subgenre devoted to Nottingham Forest’s great manager Brian Clough.) The new football books were greeted with suspicion....
...But the overblown plot (world domination conspiracy, villains returning from the dead) reminds us that all the best Conan Doyle stories had an atmospheric, even seedy particularity of place and event....
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