Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast

A Literary Mosaic (1886)

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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The Adventure of the Final Problem (1893)

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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Conan Doyle and Crime Fiction, with Martin Edwards

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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The Croxley Master (1899)

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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Next time on Doings of Doyle
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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The Curse of Eve (1894)

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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Next time on Doings of Doyle
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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Conan Doyle - Memories and Adventures, with Douglas Kerr

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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Access the shownotes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/09/30-conan-doyle-memories-and-adventures.html 
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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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The Mystery of Sasassa Valley (1879)

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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A Foreign Office Romance (1894)

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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Conan Doyle and Professor Challenger, with Stephen J. Carver

This episode, Paul and I are delighted to welcome to the podcast Dr Stephen Carver, author, biographer and recipient of one of the ACD Society’s Inaugural Doylean Honours for his excellent Wordsworth Editions blog on the Professor Challenger stories.
We talk with Stephen about the appeal of Professor Challenger to readers and to Conan Doyle, The Land of Mist and Challenger’s spiritualist conversion, the perils and successes of the professional writer, plus gothic writing, dinosaurs and murdering evil-doers in scientific experiments.
You can read the Professor Challenger stories here.
Or visit Stephen's website here.
And read the show notes here.
Next time on Doings of Doyle
We travel to the early nineteenth-century for some diplomatic intrigue in ‘A Foreign Office Romance’ (1894). You can read the story here.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to our sponsor, Belanger Books: www.belangerbooks.com, and to our patrons on Patreon. And, of course, to Stephen Carver.
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The Maracot Deep (1929)

This time we travel to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in search of new creatures and encounter ancient ones in The Maracot Deep (1929), Conan Doyle’s last novel.
You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Maracot_Deep
And read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/05/26-maracot-deep-1929.html
A closed-caption version of the episode will appear two days after the episode date at our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSy23ujzPCKpttfaUwceFfA
Next time on Doings of Doyle
We welcome Dr Stephen Carver, one of the winners of the ACD Society Inaugural Doylean Honours, to discuss Professor Challenger.
You can read Stephen’s award-winning blog here: https://wordsworth-editions.com/blog/professor-challenger
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