Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast

This episode, we welcome to the podcast Jonathan Cranfield, Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Liverpool John Moores University, in the United Kingdom, and editor of Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes for the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle.
You can find the book here: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-memoirs-of-sherlock-holmes.html 
And read more about the Edinburgh Works project here: https://edinburgh-conan-doyle.org/
The shownotes can be found here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2023/06/39-memoirs-of-sherlock-holmes-with.html 
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We join Etienne Gerard as he encounters inscrutable British ways in 'The Brigadier in England' (1903). You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Brigadier_in_England 

This episode, we explore Conan Doyle's life-long fascination with true crime through his 'Strange Studies from Life', dramatic retellings of nineteenth century murder trials, published in the Strand in 1901.
You can read the stories here:
https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Holocaust_of_Manor_Place
https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Love_Affair_of_George_Vincent_Parker
https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Debatable_Case_of_Mrs._Emsley
And read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2023/05/38-strange-studies-from-life-1901.html 
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Next time on Doings of Doyle
We are joined by Jonathan Cranfield from Liverpool John Moores University, who has edited the new Edinburgh Edition of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. You can find out more here: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-memoirs-of-sherlock-holmes.html 
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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 
And read the show notes here: https://bit.ly/DOD37sn 
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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/
A closed-caption version of the episode will appear two days after the episode date at our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle
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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Next time on Doings of Doyle
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/
Next time on Doings of Doyle
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).
A closed-caption version of the episode will appear two days after the episode date at our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle
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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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.
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
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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Next time on Doings of Doyle
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
Acknowledgements
Thanks to our sponsor, Belanger Books: www.belangerbooks.com, and to our patrons on Patreon.
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