From the back cover:

More than a hundred years have passed since the creation of Sherlock Holmes, perhaps the most famous fictional character of all time. But while the legendary detective lives on in the popular imagination, the man who created him is often overlooked or misunderstood. This fresh and compelling biography examines the extraordinary life and strange contrasts of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the struggling provincial doctor who became the most popular storyteller of his age.

From his youthful exploits aboard a whaling ship to his often stormy friendships with such figures as Harry Houdini and George Bernard Shaw, Arthur Conan Doyle lived a life as gripping as one of his own adventures. Exhaustively researched and elegantly written, Teller of Tales sets aside many myths and misconceptions to present a vivid portrait of the man behind the legend of Baker Street, with a particular emphasis on the Psychic Crusade that dominated his final years - the work that Conan Doyle himself felt to be "the most important thing in the world."

"I have had a life which, for variety and romance, could, I think, hardly be exceeded," Conan Doyle once wrote. Teller of Tales presents that story with rare panache.

INDEX

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"The Abbey Grange" • Khalifa Abdullah el Taashi • "The Absolute Proof" • "The Actor's Duel" • Adelphi Theater • The Admirable Crichton (Barrie) • "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" • "The Adventure of the Empty House" • "The Adventure of the Priory School" • "The Adventure of the Three Garridebs" • "The Adventure of the Two Collaborators" (Barrie) • The Adventures of Gerard • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes • Africa • An African Millionaire (Allen) • African Steam Navigation Company • agnosticism • airplanes • "Allahakbarries" (team) • Grant Allen • American Weekly • "The American's Tale" • Cyril Angell • Angels of Darkness • Anglo-American friendship • Anglo-German relations • George Anson • Answers (magazine) • apocalypse • Apparitions and Thought Transference (Podmore) • Arctic Circle • "The Arctic Seas" (address) • Arrowsmith publishing firm • The Art of Practical Whist (Drayson) • Prime Minister Asquith • Athenaeum • Atlantic City • Atlantis, legend of • Australia • Australian High Command • Author's Club • automatic ("trance") writing • automobiles

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Baker Street • The Baker Street Journal • Arthur Balfour • Henry Ball • Sir William Barrett • J.M. Barrie • Harry Baskerville • Battle of St. Quentin • Battle of Ypres • Bay of Biscay • Henry Ward Beecher • Max Beerbohm • Samuel Orchart Beeton • Beeton's Christmas Annual • Belgian Congo • Joseph Bell • The Bells (Lewis) • "Bendy's Sermon" • Edward F. Benson • Bentley and Company • General van Bernhardi • Sarah Bernhardt • "The Beryl Coronet" • Annie Besant • Sir Walter Besant • Ada Besinnet • Theodore Besterman • Beyond the City • Biggles in Africa (Johns) • Bignell House • Birkenhead (ship) • "The Birken'ead Drill" (Kipling) • R.D. Blackmore • "The Blanched Soldier" • Helena Blavatsky • Bloemfontein • Bloemfontein Ramblers' Cricket Club • Bloomsbury group • "The Blue Carbuncle" • The Blue Train Mystery (Christie) • "The Bluebeard of the Bath" • Ralph David Blumenfeld • Boer War (South African War) • Boers • William Bolitho • book rights • The Bookman • W.H.J. Boot • "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" • boxing • boys' books • Boy's Own Paper (journal) • Ernesto Bozzano • Johannes Branger • Tobias Branger • Brigadier Gerard • Brigadier Gerard (character) • Brigadier Gerard stories • Bristol • British army • The British Campaign in France and Flanders • British College of Psychic Science • British Journal of Photography • British Medical Journal • British Museum • George Mackenzie Brown • Elizabeth Barrett Browning • "The Bruce-Partington Plans" • Beau Brummell • John Buchan • George Buchanan • George Turnavine Budd • Edward Bullin • Lord Burnham • William J. Burns • Bush Villas

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Cairo • Cambridge University • Canada • "Captain of the Pole-Star" • The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Tales • Thomas Carlyle • Count Carmar • Carnegie Hall • Carpathia (ship) • John Dickson Carr • Eva Carriere • The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes • The Case for Spirit Photography • "A Case of Identity" • "The Case of Oscar Slater" • The Case of the Cottingley Fairies (Cooper) • "The Case of the Missing Lady" (Christie) • Sir Roger Casement • "Casey at the Bat" (Thayer) • Catholic Young Men's Society of Great Britain • Catholic Church • Catholicism • Robert Cecil • "Chaining" (technique) • Challenger (corvette) • Joseph Chamberlain • Chambers's Journal • Raymond Chandler • Channel Tunnel (proposed) • characterization/characters • Francis Charteris • John Charteris • Geoffrey Chaucer • G.K. Chesterton • chivalry • Agatha Christie • Colonel Archibald Christie • Rosalind Christie • Sir Robert Christison • Milbourne Christopher • Winston Churchill • civilian rifle ranges • Cleeve (butler) • J.R. Clynes • cocaine • Collier's Weekly • Sir Godfrey Collins • Comic Dramatists of the Restoration (Hunt) • The Coming of the Fairies • Common Sense • Michael Conan • Adrian Malcolm Conan Doyle (son of CD) • Alleyne Kingsley Conan Doyle (son of CD) • Annette Conan Doyle (sister of CD) • Denis Percy Stewart Conan Doyle (son of CD) • Jean Conan Doyle (daughter of CD) • Lady Jean Conan Doyle (Jean Leckie)(second wife of CD) • Louisa Hawkins Conan Doyle (first wife of CD)("Touie") • Mary Conan Doyle (daughter of CD) • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • "Conan Doyle: Teller of Tales" (pamphlet) • Coney Island • Congo Free State • Congo Reform Association • Congo River • Joseph Conrad • Conservatives • Florrie Cook • Fenimore Cooper • Joe Cooper • Copernicus • "The Copper Beeches" • Copyright laws/protection • Cornhill Magazine • "Corporal Dick's Promotion" • Cottingley • Cottingley photographs • "Crabbe's Practice" • Crandon, Mina ("Margery") • Geoffrey Crawley • George Craze • "The Creeping Man" • "Crewe Circle" • cricket • The Crime of the Congo • critics • William Crookes • Crowborough • Crowborough Beacon Golf Club • The Croxley Master • Leslie Curnow • Claud Currie • "The Curse of Eve"

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Daily Chronicle • Daily Express • Daily Mail • Daily News • Daily News and Leader • Daily Telegraph • "Danger! Being the Log of Captain John Sirius" • Charles Darwin • Ira Davenport • William Davenport • Davenport Brothers • Davos • Davos English Ski Club • "The Decay of Lying" (Wilde) • deduction • Daniel Defoe • Baron De Marbot • dematerialization theory • Milo de Meyer • Deputy-Lieutenant of Survey (honorary position) • A Desert Drama • detective fiction • Devon • John Devoy • Charles Dickens • "The Disintegration Machine" • divorce law reform • Divorce Law Reform Union • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson) • Dr. Watson (character) • "The Doctors of Hoyland" • "Does Death End All?" (lecture) • The Doings of Raffles Haw • George H. Doran • James Douglas • Annette Doyle (aunt of CD) • Bryan Mary Julia Josephine Doyle • Charles Altamont Doyle (father of CD) • Connie Doyle (sister of CD) • Dodo Doyle • Francis Doyle • Henry Doyle (uncle of CD) • Ida Doyle (sister of CD) • Innes Doyle (brother of CD) • James Doyle (uncle of CD) • John Doyle (grandfather of CD) • Lottie Doyle (later Oldham) (sister of CD) • Mary Foley Doyle ("the Ma’am")(mother of CD) • Michael Francis Doyle • Richard Doyle (uncle of CD) • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • Richard D'Oyly Carte • D'Oyly Carte Opera Company • Dracula (Stoker) • Major General Alfred Drayson • Theodore Dreiser • Major Drury • George du Maurier • A Duet with an Occasional Chorus • Dumfermline Protestant Defense Organisation • Joseph Dunninger • The Dynamiter (Stevenson)

E
Easter Rising • ectoplasm • George Edalji • Shapurji Edalji • Edalji Committee • The Edge of the Unknown • Edinburgh • Edinburgh Literary Institute • King Edward VII • Egypt • T.S. Eliot • Colonel Elmore • Empire News • end of the world • "The Engineer's Thumb" • England • "England and the Next War" • enteric (typhoid fever) • "Essay upon the vasometer changes in tabes dorsalis...:" • "The Evidence for Fairies" • The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard

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fairies • Fairies: The Cottingley Photographs and Their Sequel (Gardner) • Maude Fancher • "The Farnshire Cup" • "The Fate of Evangeline" • Anna Eva Fay • Feda (spirit control) • fiction • "The Final Problem" • The Fires of Fate (play) • The Fires of Fate (play) • C.C. Penrose Fitzgerald • "The Five Orange Pips" • Alec Forbes • Arthur Ford • Ernest Ford • Fordoun House • Fortnightly Review • Katherine Fox • Margaretta Fox • Fox Tor Mire • Archduke Francis Ferdinand • Charles Frohman

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Emile Gaboriau • John Galsworthy • Edward L. Gardner • Henry Highland Garnet • Eileen Garrett • Gas and Water Gazette • gelseminum • genre fiction • George V • George Waterston & Sons (co.) • Germany • Germany and the Next War (Bernhardi) • Edward Gibbon • Gibbs (surgeon) • W.S. Gilbert • Marion Gilchrist • Thomas Patrick Gill • William Gillette • Bernard Gimbel • George Gissing • William Gladstone • Horace Goldin • golf • The Gondoliers (Gilbert and Sullivan) • Good Words (magazine) • William Gordon • John Gray • The Great Boer War • Great Britain • "Great Britain and the Next War" • "The Great Keinplatz Experiment" • The Great Raymond • The Great Shadow • Horace Greeley • Gresham Life Insurance Company • Frances Griffiths (later Frances Way) • The Grim Game (film) • Grimspound • Arthur Guiterman • Edmund Gurney • Thomas Gunin • H.A. Gwynne

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Douglas Haig • Thea Hardeen • Lyn Harding • Thomas Hardy • Harper's New Monthly Magazine • Harrogate Hydropathic Hotel, Yorkshire • Bret Harte • Leonard J. Hartman • Jack Hawkins • Louisa Hawkins • Mrs. Hawkins • William Randolph Hearst • The Heart of Darkness (Conrad) • Held by the Enemy (Gillette) • Carl Heller • Ernest Hemingway • Rosamund Hemsley • William Hannam Henderson • Adelaide Herrmann • Hilda Wade (Allen) • J. Arthur Hill • Hindhead • "His First Operation" • "His Last Bow" • historical detail/realism • historical fiction • historical novels • history(ies)(Boer War; World War I) • History of England (Macaulay) • History of Spiritualism • Dr. Reginald Hoare • Silas K. Hocking • Hodder (school) • James Hogg • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Daniel Dunglas Home • homosexuality • Anthony Hope • William Hope • Hope (whaler) • Connie Doyle Hornung • Hornung, E.W. (Willie) • Oscar Hornung • "The Horror of the Heights" • horsemanship • Bess Houdini • Harry Houdini • "Houdini the Enigma" • "Houdinitis" • The Hound of the Baskervilles • The House of Temperley (play) • Harry How • "How the Brigadier Slew the Fox" • "How the Brigadier Won His Medal" • Ludmilla Hubel • Annie Hughes • Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death (Myers) • Ernest Hunt • Leigh Hunt • Thomas Huxley • "The Hydesville Episode" • John E Hylan • hypnotism

I
The Idler (magazine) • Imperial Naval Office • The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde) • income from writing • influenza • "The Inner Room" • International Medical Congress of Berlin • International Psychic Gazette • International Spiritualistic Congress • The Invisible Man (Wells) • "Ireland, Germany and the Next World War" (Casement) • Irish Home Rule • Irish independence movement • Irish Republican Brotherhood • Irish Review • Henry Irving • The Island of Dr. Moreau (Wells) • J. Bruce Ismay

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"J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" • Jacobshorn (mountain) • William James • Commander Jane • Jane Annie, or The Good Conduct Prize (Barrie) • Jerome K. Jerome • Jesuit schools • Sophia Jex-Blake • "John Barrington Cowles" • Samuel Johnson • Journal for the American Society for Psychical Research • Journal of the Society for Psychical Research • The Jungle Book (Kipling) • justice, Conan Doyle's crusades for

K
Kempelen Chess Player • Sir William Kennedy • "The Khaki Election" • Kidnapped (Stevenson) • Claude King • Rudyard Kipling • Kirriemuir • Lord Kitchener • Ardolph Kline • knighthood • Robert Koch • Kodak (co.) • Paul Kruger

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Ladies' Home Journal • Jack Lamb • Helen Lambie • The Land of Mist • Edmund Landolt • Andrew Lang • Langham Hotel (London) • Archie Langman • John Langman • Langman Hospital • Lillie Langtry • Last Galley • "Latest Pronouncement of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle after Thirty Years of Psychical Research" • Horace Leaf • Jean Leckie • Malcolm Leckie • lecture tours (Africa; America; Australia/New Zealand) • Mrs. Osborne Leonard • Leopold II, king of Belgium • Liberal Party • Liberal Unionist party • Liberia • Light (journal) • Abraham Lincoln • "Lion's Mane" • Baron Joseph Lister • literary career • literary influences on Conan Doyle • literary status/reputation • literature, Doyle's passion for • The Little Minister (Barrie) • "Little Orphant Annie" (Riley) • David Lloyd George • Lily Loder-Symonds • Willie Loder-Symonds • Raymond Lodge • Sir Oliver Lodge • London • Jack London • Landon Opinion • London Society • London Spiritualist Alliance • London Underground, Baker Street stop • Longmans publishers • Lorna Doone (Blackmore) • "The Los Amigos Fiasco" • The Lost World • Louis XVI, King of France • Harold Lowe • Ludwig I of Bavaria • Lusitania • Lyceum Theater • May Lyttelton

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Joseph McCabe • Thomas Babington Macaulay • McClure's Magazine • Compton MacKenzie • Colin McLean • Reverend J.A. Magee • A Magician Among the Spirits (Houdini) • Max Malini • Max Mallowan • The Man from Beyond (film) • "The Man with the Twisted Lip" • Thomas Mann • A Manual of the Operations of Surgery (Bell) • The Maracot Deep • Marie Antoinette • Marie Celeste (ship) • "Marriage of the Brigadier" • Archibald Marshall • Marylebone Spiritualist Association • John Masefield • John Nevil Maskelyne • Masongill Cottage • matter transmission • Mayumba (ship) • "The Mazarin Stone" • "A Medical Document" • medical stories • medium(s) • mediumship • Fuller Mellish • melodrama • Herman Melville • The Memoirs of Baron de Marbot (De Marbot) • The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes • Memories and Adventures • mental telepathy • George Meredith • Merripit • Franz Anton Mesmer • mesmerism • "Metamorphosis" substitution trunk mystery • "Methods of Barbarism" (Stead) • Micah Clarke • military readiness • Millesimo Castle • Miracles and Modern Spiritualism (Wallace) • Modern Psychic Mysteries (Bazzano) • modern world • Molly Maguires • The Molly Maguires and the Detectives (Pinkerton) • Claude Monet • Lola Monlez • Montrose Royal Lunatic Asylum • Edmund Dene Morel • Alice Moriarty • Mormons • F. Frankfort Moore • Morning Post • Malcolm Morris • motoring • Movietone newsreel • "Mr. Irving Takes Paregoric" (Shaw) • Mrs. McGinty's Dead (Christie) • John Mulholland • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Christie) • "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (Poe) • John Murray • Benito Mussolini • "My Friend the Murderer" • My Life and Times (Jerome) • F.W.H. Myers • The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Christie) • The Mystery of Cloomber • Mystery of Edwin Drood (Dickens) • "The Mystery of Sasassa Valley"

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Fridjot Nansen • Napoleonic era • The Narrative of John Smith • The Nation • "The Naval Treaty" • Nancy Neele • Teresa Neele • New Forest of Hampshire • New Grub Street (Gissing) • "A New Light on Old Crimes" • The New Revelation • New Statesman • New York City • New York Sun • New York Times • New Zealand • Newlands Corner • George Newnes • News of the World • William Robertson Nicoll • Nigeria • Nile cruise • "The Noble Bachelor" • Eille Norwood • novellas • novels

O
Willis O'Brien • Dr. Robert O'Callaghan • Alfred Ochs • Leslie Oldham • On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of New Species (Wallace) • Ophthalmologic Society of the United Kingdom • ophthalmology • oppressed (the, Conan Doyle's efforts for) • Orange Free State • The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (Meredith) • Our American Adventure • "Our Reply to the Cleric" • Our Second American Adventure • Douglas Owen

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Sidney Paget • Walter Paget • Eusapia Paladino • paleontology • Pall Mall Club (London) • paranormal (the) • The Parasite • William Park • Gilbert Parker • Parliament • Partners in Crime (Christie) • Patience (Gilbert and Sullivan) • James Payn • Nino Pecararo • Max Pemberton • Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (Stoker) • Peruvian Amazon Company • Peter Pan (Barrie) • Phantasms of the Living (Podmore, Myers, and Gurney) • Pheneas (spirit guide) • Pheneas Speaks • Eden Phillpotts • photography • The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde) • William Royston Pike • Pilgrim Club • Allan J. Pinkerton • pirated works • plays • plays based on Conan Doyle works • Jacob Plimmer • plots • puzzle • Plymouth • Frank Podmore • Edgar Allan Poe • poetry • The Poison Belt • political caricature • politics • poltergeist phenomena • Major James Pond • Popular Wireless Weekly • Portsmouth • Portsmouth Cricket Club • Portsmouth Evening News • Portsmouth Eye Hospital • Portsmouth Football Club • Portsmouth Literary and Scientific Society • Dorothy Postlethwaite • A Pot of Caviare • Dr. Ellis Powell • Evan Powell • Frederick Eugene Powell • precognition • Pretoria • Harry Price • Prince Henry Tour • The Prisoner of Zenda (Hope) • Professor George Edward Challenger (character) • Professor Moriarty (character) • propaganda • prose style (Conan Doyle) • The Psychic Adventures of Edward Malone • psychic belief • The Psychic Bookshop • psychic experience (Conan Doyle) • psychic novel(s) • psychic phenomena • Psychic Press • Psychic research • psychic science • The Psychology and Development of Mediumship (Leaf) • psychometry • public crusades • Pudd'nhead Wilson (Twain) • pugilistica • Punch (magazine) • "The Purloined Letter" (Poe) • puzzle plots

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Queen (magazine) • Arthur Quiller-Couch

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Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (Hornung) • "Ragtime" (poem) • Rationalist Press Organization • Raymond: or Life and Death… (Lodge) • "Readings and Reminiscences" (lecture) • "The Recollections of Captain Wilkie" • The", "The Red Circle • "The Red-Headed League" • John Redmond • Reform Club (London) • The Refugees: A Tale of Two Continents • Regency period • Reichenbach Falls • Reichstag • Mayne Reid • religion • Ernest Renan • research • "The Retired Colourman" • The Return of Sherlock Holmes • Review of Reviews • reviews • Cecil Rhodes • Rhodesia • Richard Savage (Barrie) • Grant Richards • Dr. Richardson • Henry Rignold • James Whitcomb Riley • Estelle Roberts • Lord Roberts • Sir William Robertson • Robinson, Bertram Fletcher ("Bobbles") • Rodney Stone • romance • romantic fiction • Theodore Roosevelt • William Roughhead • Round the Fire Stories • Round the Red Lamp • Royal Albert Hall (London) • Royal Westminster Eye Infirmary • William Clark Russell • William Rutherford • Sir Albert de Rutzen

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St. Ives (Stevenson) • H.A. Saintsbury • John Salvator Archduke of Tuscany • Eugene Sandou • Saturday Review • Savoy Theater • Dorothy Sayers • "A Scandal in Bohemia" • Scharlieb (surgeon) • science • science fiction • science of criminal investigation • science of deduction • Scientific American (magazine) • Scientists (and spiritualism) • Scotland Yard • The Scotsman • Sir Walter Scott • Sydney Scott • Scottish "Border Burghs" • Marquis Scotto • "séance chair" • séance room(s) • séances • Secret Service (Gillette) • P.T. Selbit • "Selecting a Ghost" • serial rights • serialization(s) • Seven Lectures to Young Men (Beecher) • "Shall I Slay My Brother Boer?" (Stead) • Royden Sharpe • Wallace Sharpe • George Bernard Shaw • "Tommy" Shaw • Patrick Sherlock • Sherlock Holmes (character) • Sherlock Holmes (play) • Sherlock Holmes films • Sherlock Holmes novels • Sherlock Holmes plays • Sherlock Holmes pub (London) • Sherlock Holmes stories/adventures • Sherlockians • short stories • short story format • Clement Shorter • "Shoscombe Old Place" • Henry Sidgwick • The Sign of the Four • Silent Pool • "Silver Blaze" • James Young Simpson • Sing Sing • Sinn Fein • "Sir A. Conan Doyle's Ghosts" (McCabe) • Sir Nigel • Sister Carrie (Dreiser) • Sixth Royal Sussex Volunteer Regiment Crowborough Company • skiing • Henry Slade • Oscar Slater • Al Smith • Captain John Smith • Herbert Greenhough Smith • Harold Snelling • Society for Psychical Research (S.P.R.) • Society of American Magicians • "Some Notes on Mediaeval Commerce" (lecture) • Songs of Action • souls of the dead • South Africa • South African Republic (Transvaal) • South Norwood • Southsea • Southsea Bowling Club • "The Speckled Band" • The Speckled Band (play) • The Spectator • spirit communication/contact • spirit exposés • spirit phenomena • spirit photography • spirit sensitive(s) • spiritualism • spiritualism (Conan Doyle) • Spiritualist Church (London) • spiritualist movement • spiritualist works • spiritualists (and funeral of Conan Doyle) • sports • Henry Stanley • The Stark Munro Letters • Vincent Starrett • W.T. Stead • Frederick Dorr Steele • Frances Stevenson • Robert Louis Stevenson • Joseph Marshall Stoddart • Bram Stoker • Stoll Film Company • The Stonor Case • Stonyhurst (school) • stop-action clay animations • "The Story of Mr. George Edalji" • A Story of Waterloo • "A Straggler of '15" • The Strand (magazine) • Ida Straus • A Study in Scarlet • "Styles" (Christie home) • submarines • Sudan • suffrage movement • Arthur Sullivan • Sunday Express (London) • Sunday Pictorial • "The Surgeon of Gaster Fell" • Suspense (Conrad) • "The Sussex Vampire" • Algernon Swinburne • Lily Symonds

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table-tipping/turning • Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Poe) • A Tangled Skein • Bob Tappin • Temple Bar (magazine) • "Tendency of Fiction in England" (lecture) • "Testing Gas Pipes for Leakage" • William Makepeace Thackeray • Ernest Lawrence Thayer • Theosophical movement • Theosophical Society • C. Drayton Thomas • Thomas Cook travel agency • Eva Thompson • William R. Thompson • Professor Thomson • Sir Charles Wyville Thomson • "Thor Bridge" • Through the Magic Door • "The Three Gables" • Three Men in a Boat (Jerome) • Howard Thurston • The Time Machine (Wells) • Times (London) • Tit-Bits (magazine) • Titanic • W.R. Titterton • "To An Undiscerning Critic" • "To Arms!" (pamphlet) • "To Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" (Guiterman) • "To the British Working Man" (Meredith) • Ohio Toledo • The Tragedy of the Korosko • Transactions of the Society for Psychical Research • translations (Conan Doyle) • Treasure Island (Stevenson) • Herbert Beerbohm Tree • John Trench • "Trial of Oscar Slater" (Roughhead) • Trilby (du Maurier) • The Truth About Oscar Slater (Park) • "The Truth of Masks" (Wilde) • tuberculosis • Mark Twain • Charles Tweedale • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Verne) • "221B" (Starrett)

U • V
U-boats • "Uncharted Coast" writings • Uncle Bernac • Undershaw (Conan Doyle home) • Undershaw Rifle Club • Union of Democratic Control • United States • University of Edinburgh • The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin (Houdini) • Utopia, Limited (Gilbert and Sullivan) • The Valley of Fear • Father Bernard Vaughan • Jules Verne • Queen Victoria • Vienna • Frederic Villiers • A Visit to Three Fronts • The Vital Message • "The Voice of Science" • "Von Kempelen and His Discovery" (Poe) • Alfred von Tirpitz

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Wadi Haifa • Prince of Wales • Alfred Russel Wallace • Edgar Wallace • Bryan Charles Waller • Lewis Waller • The Wanderings of a Spiritualist • "War in South Africa: Its Causes and Conduct" • War Office • Ward, Lock and Company • warfare, new forms of • "A Warning" (pamphlet) • wartime chronicles • D.C. Washington • James Watson • Patrick Heron Watson • A.P. Watt • H.T. Webster • Weekly Dispatch • Cecilia Weiss • Ehrich Weiss • Elmore ('Elmo') Welden • A Well-Remembered Voice (Barrie) • H.G. Wells • "The Werewolf of Trenton" • Westminster Gazette • Whaling cruise • When the World Screamed • Arnold White • The White Company • White Star line • Oscar Wilde • William J. Burns National Detective Agency • Woodrow Wilson • Windlesham (Conan Doyle home) • A Window in Thrums (Barrie) • Witchcraft Act • P.G. Wodehouse • The Woman Who Did (Allen) • women • women's rights • women's suffrage movement • Major Wood • McKinnon Wood • Sir Leonard Woolley • Robert Woolsey • Woolwich Academy • Dorothy Wordsworth • The World • World War I • Mrs. Wriedt • Arthur Wright • Elsie Wright (later Elsie Hill) • Mrs. Wright • writing(s) (Conan Doyle)

Y • Z
Sherman Yellen • Ada Zancig • Julius Zancig • Israel Zangwill