Adrian Conan Doyle

Adrian Conan Doyle
Adrian Conan Doyle with his father Sir Arthur in 1930
Born	(1910-11-19)19 November 1910 U.K.
Died	3 June 1970(1970-06-03) (aged 59)
Occupation(s)	Racing driver, big-game hunter, explorer, writer
Spouse	Anna Andersen
Parents	Arthur Conan Doyle Jean Leckie

Adrian Malcolm Conan Doyle (19 November 1910 – 3 June 1970) was the youngest son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his second wife Jean, Lady Doyle or Lady Conan Doyle. He had two siblings, sister Jean Conan Doyle and brother Denis, as well as two half-siblings, sister Mary and brother Kingsley.

Adrian has been depicted as a racing car driver,

Adrian Conan Doyle produced additional Sherlock Holmes stories, some with the assistance of John Dickson Carr. The basis of his production was to complete those tales referenced in his father's stories, which his father had never written. (Carr had published an "authorized" biography of Sir Arthur in 1949.) These additional Sherlock Holmes tales were written in 1952 and 1953, and a hardcover collection of the stories was published as The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes in 1954. They have been reissued subsequently, while other authors have also written Sherlock Holmes stories based on the same references within the original tales.

Discovery of unpublished Holmes story

On 12 September 1942, the

In the United States, Cosmopolitan magazine obtained it and published it in their August 1948 issue under the uncharacteristic title "The Case of the Man who was Wanted". It was also published in London's Sunday Dispatch magazine the following January. Sherlock Holmes expert Vincent Starrett doubted that the story was written by the elder Doyle and suggested that Adrian was the author.

In September 1945, a letter was received by

Sir Arthur's widow Jean chose a spiritualist, the Rev. John Lamond, to write an authorised life of him, Arthur Conan Doyle: A Memoir (John Murray, 1931). The memoir emphasised his paranormal interests but was not what readers wanted, so after their mother's death Adrian and Denis grudgingly allowed Hesketh Pearson to write Conan Doyle: His Life and Art (Methuen, 1943). But Pearson's book offended Adrian and Denis by saying that the secret of their father's success was that he was the "common man". Adrian threatened criminal proceedings against Pearson's "fakeography", and wrote an article in protest, and later, a book: The True Conan Doyle (John Murray, 1945). According to Lycett, "When the BBC commissioned an anniversary talk from Hesketh Pearson, Adrian announced that if it went ahead it would never broadcast another Sherlock Holmes story. The Corporation caved in."^[3]

Arms

Bibliography

• The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes (1954, London, John Murray)
• The True Conan Doyle, (1945, London, John Murray; written about Arthur Conan Doyle, with a preface by Sir Hubert Gough)

Sherlock Holmes stories

The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes (1954 collection)
(Author credits are as given in the book's table of contents.)
By Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr

• "The Adventure of the Seven Clocks"
• "The Adventure of the Gold Hunter"
• "The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers"
• "The Adventure of the Highgate Miracle"
• "The Adventure of the Black Baronet"
• "The Adventure of the Sealed Room"

By Adrian Conan Doyle

• "
  The Adventure of the Foulkes Rath
  "
• "The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby"
• "The Adventure of the Dark Angels"
• "The Adventure of the Two Women"
• "The Adventure of the Deptford Horror"
• "The Adventure of the Red Widow"

Non-Holmes works

• Heaven Has Claws (1952, London, John Murray)
• Tales of Love and Hate (1960, London, John Murray)
  • The Woman Who Slew; Black Hyde; Lady Moresby's Secret; A Tooth for a Tooth; The Red Swallowtail; The Lover of the Coral Glades; The Gunman of Corpus Christi; Jungle Lore; The Pearl of Dying Boys' Reef; Johnny Death
• Lone Dhow (1963, London, Murray)

References

Citations

• Lellenberg, Jon L. (1990). Nova 57 Minor. Bloomington: Gaslight Publications.
• ISBN 978-0-7432-7523-1
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• The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Literary Estate, official website of one copyright holder
• "Conan Doyle Dead From Heart Attack". The New York Times. 8 July 1930. Includes "Family Awaits a Message", Adrian on Sir Arthur's promise to communicate