This episode, we travel above the clouds in the company of hot-headed aeronaut Joyce-Armstrong in ‘The Horror of the Heights', from November 1913.

You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Horror_of_the_Heights

Or hear an audio book version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1mV3iOfUT0 

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This episode, we are delighted to welcome to the podcast Linda Bailey and Isabelle Follath, respectively the author and illustrator of Arthur Who Wrote Sherlock (2023), a new children’s biography of Conan Doyle.

You can find out more about the book here: https://www.andersenpress.co.uk/books/arthur-who-wrote-sherlock/

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Please note that we had intermittent audio problems during recording and have done what we can to correct this. We hope this doesn't affect your listening pleasure too much!

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We take a trip to the clouds in ‘The Horror of the Heights’ (1913). You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Horror_of_the_Heights 

This episode, we join a cast of Conan Doyle’s literary heroes in his amusing short story, ‘A Literary Mosaic,’ also known as ‘Cyprian Overbeck Wells,’ which first appeared in December 1886.

You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/Cyprian_Overbeck_Wells._A_Literary_Mosaic 

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This episode, we travel to Switzerland with Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson for a showdown with the fiendish Professor Moriarty in ‘The Adventure of the Final Problem’ (1893).

You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Adventure_of_the_Final_Problem

You can hear a reading by Greg Wagland here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXnEehQkZGg

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This episode, we are delighted to welcome to the podcast multi-award-winning crime novelist and President of the Detection Club, Martin Edwards, to talk about Conan Doyle and crime fiction.

You can read the shownotes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/12/33-conan-doyle-and-crime-fiction-with.html

Biography of Martin Edwards

Martin Edwards is a multi-award-winning crime novelist, the President of the Detection Club, archivist of the Crime Writers’ Association and series consultant to the British Library’s highly successful series of crime classics, and therefore uniquely qualified to write this book. He has been a widely respected genre commentator for more than thirty years, winning the CWA Diamond Dagger for making a significant contribution to crime writing in 2020, when he also compiled and published Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club and the novel Mortmain Hall. His critically acclaimed The Golden Age of Murder (Collins Crime Club, 2015) was a landmark study of Detective Fiction between the wars. Martin’s latest non-fiction work, The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators, 0traces the evolution of the genre from the eighteenth century to the present, offering brand-new perspective on the world’s most popular form of fiction.

Find out more at Martin’s blog: http://doyouwriteunderyourownname.blogspot.com/

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We stay in the world of crime fiction as we join Sherlock Holmes in a battle to the death with his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, in 'The Adventure of the Final Problem' (1893).

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This episode, we get in training to face Silas Craggs in Conan Doyle’s boxing story ‘The Croxley Master’ from 1899.

You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Croxley_Master

And read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/11/32-croxley-master-1899.html 

For an introduction to Conan Doyle and sport, listen to our interview with Mark Alberstat in Episode 7 - https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2020/10/7-conan-doyle-and-sport-with-mark.html).

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We are joined by Martin Edwards, crime-writer, President of the Detection Club, and author of The Life of Crimes (2022), a monumental new history of crime fiction, to discuss Conan Doyle and the detective novel.

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This episode, we join an expectant father as he pensively awaits the arrival of his first born, in ‘The Curse of Eve’, one of Conan Doyle’s Round the Red Lamp stories.

You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Curse_of_Eve

Or listen to a Librivox recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZevaD0khms (begins 2:07:35)

And read the show notes here.

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A young doctor enters a prize-fight to earn his tuition fees in ‘The Croxley Master’ (1899). You can read the story here.

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This episode, we are delighted to be joined by Professor Douglas Kerr to talk about Conan Doyle’s fascinating and much overlooked autobiography Memories and Adventures, first published in 1924 and revised in 1930.

You can read Memories and Adventures here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=Memories_and_Adventures 

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We delve into Conan Doyle’s medical writings with the controversial short story ‘The Curse of Eve’ (1894).

You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Curse_of_Eve

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This episode, we travel back to where it all began with Conan Doyle’s first published work, ‘The Mystery of Sasassa Valley’ (1879).

You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Mystery_of_Sasassa_Valley

You can read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/08/29-mystery-of-sasassa-valley-1879.html 

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We are joined by Professor Douglas Kerr, General Editor of the Edinburgh University Press New Critical Editions, who recently won a Doylean honour from the ACD Society for his introduction to Conan Doyle’s autobiography, Memories and Adventures (1924).

You can find out more about the Edinburgh Critical Editions here: https://edinburgh-conan-doyle.org/

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This time, we head to Regency England where a cunning French spy manipulates the outcome of the Peace of Amiens, in ‘A Foreign Office Romance’ (1894).

You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=A_Foreign_Office_Romance 

And read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/07/28-foreign-office-romance-1894.html 

Next time on Doings of Doyle

We take a look at Conan Doyle's first published story, 'The Mystery of Sasassa Valley' (1879).

You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Mystery_of_Sasassa_Valley 

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