In December 1893, to dedicate more of his time to his historical novels, Doyle had Holmes and Professor Moriarty plunge to their deaths together down the Reichenbach Falls in the story " The Final Problem". Public outcry, however, led him to feature Holmes in 1901 in the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. Holmes's fictional connection with the Reichenbach Falls is celebrated in the nearby town of Meiringen. She was surprised herself to find that she liked the Doctor better the more masculine and aggressive he became. It was unreasonable and against all principle, and yet so it was and no argument could mend the matter. The second case, that of Oscar Slater—a Jew of German origin who operated a gambling den and was convicted of bludgeoning an 82-year-old woman in Glasgow in 1908—excited Doyle's curiosity because of inconsistencies in the prosecution's case and a general sense that Slater was not guilty. He ended up paying most of the costs for Slater's successful 1928 appeal. [81] Freemasonry and spiritualism

The Crimes Club was a private social club founded by Doyle in 1903, whose purpose was discussion of crime and detection, criminals and criminology, and continues to this day as "Our Society", with membership numbers limited to 100. The club meets four times a year at the Imperial Hotel, Russell Square, London, where all proceedings are strictly confidential (" Chatham House rules"). Its logo is a silhouette of Doyle. [125] In 1887, in Southsea, influenced by Major-General Alfred Wilks Drayson, a member of the Portsmouth Literary and Philosophical Society, Doyle began a series of investigations into the possibility of psychic phenomena and attended about 20 seances, experiments in telepathy, and sittings with mediums. Writing to spiritualist journal Light that year, he declared himself to be a spiritualist, describing one particular event that had convinced him psychic phenomena were real. [82] Also in 1887 (on 26January), he was initiated as a Freemason at the Phoenix Lodge No.257 in Southsea. (He resigned from the Lodge in 1889, returned to it in 1902, and resigned again in 1911.) [83] Stashower, Daniel (2000). Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle. Penguin Books. pp. 30–31. ISBN 0-8050-5074-4. Saturday Playhouse: Conan Doyle's Strangest Case". BBC Genome: Radio Times. BBC. 14 January 1995 . Retrieved 10 November 2020.

Massimo Polidoro (2011). "Photos of Ghosts: The Burden of Believing the Unbelievable by Massimo Polidoro". Csicop.org. Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Literary Gossip". Cheltenham Looker-On. 3 December 1892. p.17 . Retrieved 9 June 2015– via British Newspaper Archive. Doyle found solace in supporting spiritualism's ideas and the attempts of spiritualists to find proof of an existence beyond the grave. In particular, according to some, [89] he favoured Christian Spiritualism and encouraged the Spiritualists' National Union to accept an eighth precept – that of following the teachings and example of Jesus of Nazareth. He was a member of the renowned supernaturalist organisation The Ghost Club. [90] Doyle with his family in New York City, 1922 There are countless film adaptations, both silent and feature films, of Arthur Conan Doyle’s books. However, most of them are non-canonical and not direct adaptations. Short stories aside, these are the canonical adaptations. United Kingdom Gross Domestic Product deflator figures follow the Measuring Worth "consistent series" supplied in Thomas, Ryland; Williamson, Samuel H. (2018). "What Was the U.K. GDP Then?". MeasuringWorth . Retrieved 2 February 2020.

As with the case of the Boscombe Valley Mystery Holmes shows an indifference to the judicial system, allowing a criminal once again to escape justice. The criminal in this case though, is arguably, less deserving of the leniency offered by the consulting detective. Christopher, Milbourne. (1996). The Illustrated History of Magic. Greenwood Publishing Group. p.264. ISBN 978-0-435-07016-8.

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Knapton, Sarah (10 August 2016). "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle cleared of Piltdown Man hoax". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022. In July 1891 Doyle published the short story " A Scandal in Bohemia" in The Strand Magazine—a "story which would change his life", according to his biographer, Andrew Lycett, as it introduced Holmes and Watson to a wide audience; the duo had provided the subject of Doyle's first novel, A Study in Scarlet, which was published in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887. The story in The Strand was one in a series of six, published in successive months. [4] They were well received by the public, and the editors of the magazine commissioned a further six stories, and then another series of twelve. Doyle, fearful of having his other work overshadowed by his fictional detective, killed his creation off in December 1893 in " The Adventure of the Final Problem". [1] He also wrote four full-length Holmes works, as well as adventure novels and nine historical works of fiction. In 1912 he began the adventure series featuring Professor Challenger, who first appeared in The Lost World—both in short stories and novels. [3]

In 1867, the family came together again and lived in squalid tenement flats at 3 Sciennes Place. [9] Doyle's father died in 1893, in the Crichton Royal, Dumfries, after many years of psychiatric illness. [10] [11] Beginning at an early age, throughout his life Doyle wrote letters to his mother, and many of them were preserved. [12] Conan Doyle fathered five children. Two with his first wife—Mary Louise (28 January 1889 – 12 June 1976), and Arthur Alleyne Kingsley, known as Kingsley (15 November 1892 – 28 October 1918). With his second wife he had three children—Denis Percy Stewart (17 March 1909 – 9 March 1955), second husband in 1936 of Georgian Princess Nina Mdivani (circa 1910 – 19 February 1987; former sister-in-law of Barbara Hutton); Adrian Malcolm (19 November 1910–3 June 1970) and Jean Lena Annette (21 December 1912–18 November 1997). In 1920, Doyle travelled to Australia and New Zealand on spiritualist missionary work, and over the next several years, until his death, he continued his mission, giving talks about his spiritualist conviction in Britain, Europe, and the United States. [84] One of the five photographs of Frances Griffiths with the alleged fairies, taken by Elsie Wright in Cottingley, England in July 1917

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Mar 1, 245pm ~~ This 1893 piece by Conan Doyle is set at a time when Londoners were moving out of the city and into newly built suburb tracts. Two elderly maiden ladies have had to sell their last bit of open land, directly across from their house. Now it has been developed with three homes that will share a common tennis court. Naturally the maiden ladies peep out the window to see what type of neighbors they will be dealing with, but we mostly focus on those neighbors during the story.