CONAN DOYLE

Hardback. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, but he was much more than a populist writer or a symbol of the triumphalism of Edwardian England. He was also an ambitious man of letters, a searcher for political and theological truth, and a leader and shaper of opinion. This definitive biography analyses the man behind the mask: the man of paradox - the Catholic who rejected Rome and religion; the atheist who later adopted spiritualism; the family man who loved another woman throughout his marriage; the father of Sherlock Holmes, who wished to destroy his detective son. Illus., Sources, Bibliog. and Index. 213pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true-crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. V. lightly browned edges, o/w Nr. F. in Nr. F. dw.