Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast

The Adventure of the Devil's Foot

‘The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot,’ the third story in the collection His Last Bow, was first published by The Strand Magazine in 1910. A tale of death and diablerie in Cornwall, it harks back to some of Conan Doyle’s earlier works...
You can read the short story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Adventure_of_the_Devil%27s_Foot
The episode can be heard here: http://doingsofdoyle.podbean.com/.
And you can read the shownotes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2021/02/11-adventure-of-devils-foot.html 
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A Straggler of '15 and Waterloo

Welcome to Episode 10. This time, we travel back to the 1890s to discuss Conan Doyle's short story 'A Straggler of '15' and its stage play version which came to be known simply as 'Waterloo' (first performed 1894). Plus we cover a cast of luminaries of the Victorian stage, including Henry Irving, Bram Stoker and George Bernard Shaw.  
You can read the story here and the play here.
You can read the show notes here.
Acknowledgements
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Music credit: Sneaky Snitch Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons:  By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
 

An Exciting Christmas Eve, or, My Lecture on Dynamite

Today, we join Otto Von Spee of Heidelberg for 'An Exciting Christmas Eve,' as he is duped into giving a lecture on dynamite...
You can read the story here.
You can read the show notes here.
Acknowledgements
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Music credit: Sneaky Snitch Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons:  By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
 

The Captain Sharkey Quartet

Ahoy mateys! All aboard the Happy Delivery for a voyage to hell and back with Conan Doyle's unscrupulous pirate villain, the damnable Sharkey.
You can read the stories here.
You can read the show notes here.
Acknowledgements
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Music credit: Sneaky Snitch Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons:  By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Conan Doyle and Sport with Mark Alberstat

In this first interview show, we talk to Mark Albertstat, co-editor of Canadian Holmes, the journal of Sherlockian society The Bootmakers of Toronto, about Conan Doyle and his fascination with sport.
The episode can be heard here: http://doingsofdoyle.podbean.com/.
The show notes can be read here.
Acknowledgements
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Music credit: Sneaky Snitch Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons:  By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The Case of Lady Sannox

We enter dark waters this episode with The Case of Lady Sannox, Conan Doyle's Gothic masterpiece, written in 1893. A sinister incident leads to a beautiful socialite withdrawing from polite society and a celebrated surgeon losing his mind...  
You can read the story here.
You can read the show notes here.
Acknowledgements
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Music credit: Sneaky Snitch Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons:  By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The Man with the Watches & The Lost Special

It's episode five and this time we're looking at The Story of the Man with the Watches and The Story of the Lost Special, two of Conan Doyle's Round the Fire stories written in 1898, and widely considered apocrypha of the Sherlock Holmes canon.
To read the stories, click here and here.
You can read the show notes here.
Acknowledgements
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Music credit: Sneaky Snitch Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons:  By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
 

Danger!

This month we're talking about Danger! Being the Log of Captain John Sirius (1914), Conan Doyle's prophetic tale of submarine warfare published during the outbreak of the First World War.
To read the story, click here.
For show notes, visit the website.  
Acknowledgements
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The Captain of the Pole-star

It's time for another episode. This month we talk about Doyle's classic ghost story, The Captain of the Pole-star (1883).
To read the story, click here.
For show notes, visit the website.
Acknowledgements
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The Winning Shot

Welcome to the second episode of Doings of Doyle. This episode, we're talking about Doyle's 1883 short story The Winning Shot.
To read the story, click here.
For show notes, visit the website.
Acknowledgements
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