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The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle (Hardcover)

by Russell Miller (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Harvill Secker (2 Oct 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0436206137
  • ISBN-13: 978-0436206139
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.4 x 4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 172,286 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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`[a] judicious and entertaining biography'
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`useful general introduction to new readers of Conan Doyle'
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4.0 out of 5 stars A very worthwhile biography, 12 Aug 2009
By Roger Johnson (Chelmsford, England) - See all my reviews
A year after Andrew Lycett's "Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes" comes "The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle" by Russell Miller - prompting the question: Do we really need another biography of Conan Doyle? Well, yes, I think we do - specifically because Russell Miller has had free access to the material that Richard Lancelyn Green bequeathed to the Conan Doyle Collection at Portsmouth and to all Sir Arthur's known surviving letters. Like Andrew Lycett, Mr Miller is an experienced biographer, and, like John Dickson Carr, he's an accomplished storyteller. His book is intensely readable, and, though I'm pretty sure that he likes Conan Doyle and would like to have known him, he maintains his objectivity, in recalling some of his subject's less loveable and less admirable traits. There's the odd error. For example, the frontispiece to the 1887 "Beeton's Christmas Annual" doesn't portray Holmes "as an anonymous figure stooped over a corpse" (that comes later): instead it shows Holmes, Watson, Gregson and Lestrade examining the word "Rache". There are some curious opinions too. In the portrait Sidney Paget, we're told, Sir Arthur looks "more like a Victorian banker than a writer" - but is there really a standard model for writers? And there are several descriptions of ACD as "unsmiling" in paintings and photographs, as if that was unusual, which it wasn't. But these are quibbles. This biography combines information and entertainment to a commendable degree.

Roger Johnson, Editor of "The Sherlock Holmes Journal"
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4.0 out of 5 stars Very good but some rookie errors, 10 Jul 2009
By Alistair Duncan "AlistairD" (UK) - See all my reviews
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This is easily the most readable Conan Doyle biography since "Teller of Tales" by Daniel Stashower. Andrew Lycett's slightly earlier biography is, in my opinion, richer on details but is a lot harder to wade through.

The only reason that I have not given five stars is that Miller is guilty of some silly errors. He gets the number of Sherlock Holmes stories wrong and, by omitting certain details, he creates an inaccurate impression of where Conan Doyle was at certain periods of his life.

Miller's book is good but should not be your sole Conan Doyle reference. It will serve you best if you have other books (such as Andrew Lycett's) to plug the gaps that he leaves.
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4.0 out of 5 stars fascinating and erudite study,Miller does it again., 3 Nov 2008
By E. S. Carte "Stafford" (UK) - See all my reviews
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This is a very well constucted biography of a giant in popular literature. I cannot recommend it highly enough. The adventures of the writer become as exciting as the works he wrote. His later self delusion in the spiritualist movement, gets poignant payback. I read it with great pleasure. Informative and entertaining.Buy it.
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