Adrian Conan Doyle

Adrian Conan Doyle with his father Sir Arthur

Born 19 November 1910

U.K.

Died 3 June 1970 (aged 59)

Occupation Race-car driver, big-game hunter,

explorer, writer

Spouse(s) Anna Andersen

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Adrian Malcolm Conan Doyle (19 November 1910 - 3 June1970) was the youngest son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle andhis second wife Jean, Lady Doyle or Lady Conan Doyle. Hehad two siblings, sister Jean and brother Denis, as well as twohalf-siblings, sister Mary and brother Kingsley.

Adrian Conan Doyle has been depicted as a race-car driver,big-game hunter, explorer, and writer. Biographer Andrew

Lycett[1] calls him a "spendthrift playboy" who (with hisbrother Denis) "used the Conan Doyle estate as amilch-cow".

He married Denmark-born Anna Andersen, and was hisfather's literary executor after his mother died in 1940. Hefounded the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Foundation inSwitzerland in 1965. On his death, his sister Jean ConanDoyle took over as their father's literary executor.

1 Additional Sherlock Holmes stories

2 Discovery of unpublished Holmes story

3 Works about his father

4 Bibliography

4.1 Sherlock Holmes stories

4.2 Non-Holmes works

5 References

6 External links

Adrian Doyle produced additional Sherlock Holmes stories, some with the assistance of John Dickson Carr. Thebasis of his production was to complete those tales referenced in his father's stories, which his father had neverwritten. These additional Sherlock Holmes tales were written in 1952 and 1953, a hardcover collection of thestories was published as The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes in 1954. They have been reissued subsequently, whileother authors have also written Sherlock Holmes stories based on the same references within the original tales.

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On 12 September 1942, the Associated Press announced that an authentic, unpublished Sherlock Holmes storyhad been found by Adrian Conan Doyle. Supposedly written in his father's uniquely neat handwriting, the storywas buried in a chest that contained family documents. (Actually, Jon Lellenberg reported in 1990, themanuscript was not in Sir Arthur's handwriting but typewritten.) Sir Arthur's daughter Jean said she knew themanuscript was not written by her father. Adrian Conan Doyle refused to publish it. A month later, the BakerStreet Irregulars wrote a letter to the Saturday Review of Literature, insisting that the story be published.

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

In September 1945, a letter was received by Hesketh Pearson, a biographer of Sir Arthur. The letter stated, "Mypride is not unduly hurt by your remark that 'The Man who was Wanted' is certainly not up to scratch for thesting is much mitigated by your going on to remark that it carries the authentic trade–mark! This, I feel, is agreat compliment to my one and only effort at plagiarism." The letter was written by an architect named ArthurWhitaker who had sent the story to Arthur Conan Doyle in 1911 with a suggestion that they publish it as a joint

collaboration. Doyle refused, but sent Whitaker a "cheque for ten guineas" in payment for the story.[2] Afterseeing it attributed to Sir Arthur in the Sunday Dispatch, Whitaker wrote a letter to Denis Conan Doyleexplaining the true authorship. Denis forwarded the letter to his brother Adrian, who became angry, demandedproof, and threatened legal action. Whitaker had retained a carbon copy and the Doyles admitted in 1949, afterseeing the carbon copy and listening to people who had read it in 1911, that Whitaker was the author. The storythat many people had accepted as the work of Sir Arthur has been published recently as "The Adventure of theSheffield Banker" in the collection The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Sir Arthur's widow Jean chose a spiritualist, the Rev. John Lamond, to write an authorised life of him, ArthurConan Doyle: A Memoir (John Murray, 1931). The memoir emphasised his paranormal interests but was notwhat readers wanted, so after their mother's death Adrian and Denis grudgingly allowed Hesketh Pearson towrite Conan Doyle: His Life and Art (Methuen, 1943). But Pearson's book offended Adrian and Denis bysaying that the secret of their father's success was that he was the "common man". Adrian threatened criminalproceedings against Pearson's "fakeography", and wrote an article in protest, and later a book The True ConanDoyle (John Murray, 1945). According to Lycett, "When the BBC commissioned an anniversary talk fromHesketh Pearson, Adrian announced that if it went ahead it would never broadcast another Sherlock Holmes

story. The Corporation caved in."[3] Lycett states that Pearson had met Arthur Conan Doyle at Francis Galton'shome before the First World War. Pearson had idolised him from an early age, but was disappointed to find athick-set broad-faced man with no more mystery than a pumpkin, who fulminated against Sherlock Holmes forpreventing him from writing the historical novels he wanted.

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Penguin Books, 1985, ISBN 0-14-007907-6 (originally

published 1954 by J Murray, London)

The True Conan Doyle, (1945, London, John Murray; written about Arthur Conan Doyle, with a preface

by Sir Hubert Gough)

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Sherlock Holmes stories

These stories were written by Adrian Doyle and John Dickson Carr except as stated.

"The Adventure of the Seven Clocks" (from: "A Scandal in Bohemia")

"The Adventure of the Gold Hunter" (from: "The Five Orange Pips")

"The Adventure of the Wax Gamblers" (from: "A Scandal in Bohemia")

"The Adventure of the Highgate Miracle" (from: "The Problem of Thor Bridge")

"The Adventure of the Black Baronet" (from: The Hound of the Baskervilles)

"The Adventure of the Sealed Room" (from: "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb") by Adrian

Doyle solely

"The Adventure of the Foulkes Rath" (from: "The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez")

"The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby" (from: The Hound of the Baskervilles)

"The Adventure of the Dark Angels" (from: "The Adventure of the Priory School")

"The Adventure of the Two Women" (from: The Hound of the Baskervilles)

"The Adventure of the Deptford Horror" (from: "The Adventure of Black Peter")

"The Adventure of the Red Widow" (from "A Scandal in Bohemia")

Non-Holmes works

Heaven has Claws (1952, London, John Murray)

Lone Dhow (1963, London, Murray)

The Lover of the Coral Glades

^ Lycett, p. 464.1.

^ The amount of the payment is quoted in the introduction to The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.2.

^ Lycett, pp. 464–66.3.

Citation

Lellenberg, Jon L. (1990). Nova 57 Minor. Bloomington: Gaslight Publications.

Lycett, Andrew (2007). The Man who created Sherlock Holmes: The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan

Doyle. London: Weidenfield & Nicolson and New York: Viking. ISBN 0-7432-7523-3.

The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Literary Estate (http://www.sherlockholmesonline.org/TheEstate/), official

website of one copyright holder

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Conan Doyle Dead From Heart Attack (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday

/bday/0522.html) (8 July 1930), Wireless to the New York Times, London, July 7 — including "Family

Awaits a Message", Adrian on Sir Arthur's promise to communicate

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