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Arthur Conan Doyle

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British author who created Sherlock Holmes (1859-1930)

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It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle. Frederick Buechner

"Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary," murmured Psmith. (Earlier usage of the precise words "Elementary, my dear Watson" has been found in the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.) P. G. Wodehouse

I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young, and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else. John Darnielle

Amusingly, in the real world, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself investigated Jack the Ripper, alongside his mentor Dr. Bell — the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes. Source: Internet

Bloemfontein has a rich Masonic history especially in the Anglo Boer War (1899–1902), with members such as Lord Kitchener, Rudyard Kipling and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, visiting Lodges in Bloemfontein. Source: Internet

Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1977p. 265. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had served as a volunteer doctor in the Langman Field Hospital at Bloemfontein between March and June 1900. Source: Internet

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