What happened toGeorge Edalji after the campaign the writer of Sherlock Holmes took a prominent role in?
d8411d6492ab1ccfa7e3fd162b1ba8db
George Edalji George Ernest Thompson Edalji (22 January 1876 – 17 June 1953) was a Parsi English solicitor and son of a vicar in a South Staffordshire village who served three years' hard labour after being convicted on a charge of injuring a pony. He was pardoned after a campaign in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle took a prominent role.
e9d0cfb86f0211e4422a4f7c1737faf9
Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. Originally a physician, in 1887 he published "A Study in Scarlet", the first of four novels about Holmes and Dr. Watson. In addition, Doyle wrote over fifty short stories featuring the famous detective.
47d32c374a669c6fdcc675058e3882b5
Donald Trump–Russia dossier The Donald Trump–Russia dossier is a private intelligence dossier that was written by Christopher Steele, a former British MI6 intelligence officer. It contains unverified allegations of misconduct and collusion between Donald Trump and his campaign and the Russian government during the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the period preceding the election. The contents of the dossier were published in full by BuzzFeed on January 10, 2017. BuzzFeed's decision to publish the dossier was met with criticism from mainstream media outlets.
8294723a432742ddf9d57d0675fa345e
George Mackenzie Brown George Mackenzie Brown (1869 – 14 July 1946) was a Canadian-born Scottish publisher who also followed a political career. As a publisher, he produced Arthur Conan Doyle's books; as a politician, he beat him to win election to the House of Commons.
0768400401b7a6f6bdca08cb98a9f865
Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong Sherlock Holmes was Wrong: Re-opening the Case of the "Hound of the Baskervilles" is a 2007 book by French professor of literature, psychoanalyst, and author Pierre Bayard.
29489b302b69f32465a3cec01519d7a5
The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby "The Adventure of the Abbas Ruby" is a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Adrian Conan Doyle, the youngest son of Arthur Conan Doyle, the Sherlock Holmes creator. The story was published in the 1954 collection, "The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes".
d6d8d8bb3115075c7b0f8e7ce34b995b
The Return of Sherlock Holmes The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories were published in the "Strand Magazine" in Great Britain, and "Collier's" in the United States.
dfd9298c25a220f2c95164f0287fada8
J. E. Preston Muddock James Edward Preston Muddock also known as "Joyce Emmerson Preston Muddock" and "Dick Donovan" (28 May 1843 – 23 January 1934), was a prolific British journalist and author of mystery and horror fiction. For a time his detective stories were as popular as those of Arthur Conan Doyle. Between 1889 and 1922 he published nearly 300 detective and mystery stories.
ea50e25b37cc6177920d0f45fccbc759
Edward Maitland Edward Maitland (27 October 1824 – 2 October 1897) was an English humanitarian writer and occultist.
c717d6d28ce6ff625e49ba5fa5fe6445
Sherlock Holmes in the Great Murder Mystery Sherlock Holmes in the Great Murder Mystery is a 1908 American silent film directed by an unknown director. The film was released on 27 November 1908 and is an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), which is considered the first detective story, though the plot was altered to include Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes instead of Poe's C. Auguste Dupin. Dr. Watson makes his film debut here, though the actors playing Holmes and Watson are unknown, as the rest of the cast. It is considered a lost film.
1badb55d6cb8885c79bcb9685544ee74
William S. Baring-Gould William Stuart Baring-Gould (1913–10 Aug 1967) was a noted Sherlock Holmes scholar, best known as the author of the influential 1962 fictional biography, "Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A life of the world's first consulting detective".
a04aeb9584a00c766c1d9132e330c2fc
The Adventure of the Three Garridebs "The Adventure of the Three Garridebs" (1924), one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as "The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes".
f7f65a59fffd70fddba12123a980458e
Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective is a full motion video video game based on a tabletop game-gamebook hybrid . It was originally developed by ICOM Simulations for the FM Towns computer and later ported to DOS, Apple Macintosh, Commodore CDTV, TurboGrafx-CD, Sega CD and Tandy Video Information System with all versions being distributed on CD-ROM. The game was re-released as a DVD for use with a standard DVD player and television in 1999. A high resolution and re-mastered version of the game for iPad, Microsoft Windows, and OS X was released on September 18, 2012.
9bedcabaf4dd8ab5805d48dbed97cc09
Meitantei Holmes: M-Kara no Chousenjou Meitantei Holmes: M-Kara no Chousenjou (名探偵ホームズ Ｍからの挑戦状 , Meitantei Hōmuzu: M kara no Chōsenjō , lit. "Great Detective Holmes: A Challenge from M") is a modern first-person adventure video game for the Family Computer that is based on the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. It is the sequel to (シャーロックホームズ 伯爵令嬢誘拐事件 , "Sherlock Holmes: The Kidnapping of the Earl's Daughter") and Meitantei Holmes: Kiri no London Satsujin Jiken (名探偵ホームズ 霧のロンドン殺人事件 , "Great Detective Holmes: A Case of Murder in London Fog") , the latter having been released on May 13, 1988. In "Kiri no London Satsujin Jiken", the player takes control of Holmes and Watson in the streets of London. The player can collect clues and also shillings in order to pay for things such as a coach fare, which allows them to travel London faster. All of these video games were released exclusively in Japan.
1bcc5a0ef7a7f9e1c0ad66c946359fa7
Caledonia Mills It is well known as the community of the Mary-Ellen spook farm, also known as the fire spook. It was alleged that the community experienced mysterious fires and poltergeist effects between 1899 and 1922. The case drew attention of Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes. Mary-Ellen's biological parents were John and Annie (Duggan) MacDonald and she was later adopted by Alexander and Janet MacDonald of Caledonia Mills.
45b04a17b231361fab780abfcc0ed262
Young Sherlock Holmes (books) Young Sherlock Holmes is a series of young adult Thriller novels by British author Andrew Lane featuring Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes as a teenager in the 1860s that is faced with numerous crimes and adventures throughout the series.
57180e5e875d05832b04c46201e64238
The Case of Marcel Duchamp The Case of Marcel Duchamp is a 1984 British mystery film directed by David Rowan and starring Guy Rolfe, Raymond Francis, Harold Innocent and Juliet Hammond. Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson come out of retirement to solve a final case concerning the artist Marcel Duchamp.
75c816a587877989d19fb4bf19b48d9a
Alan Vanneman Alan Vanneman is an author and journalist based in Washington, D.C. He is the author of two pastiche works of Sherlock Holmes - "Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra," which was published in 2002, and "Sherlock Holmes and the Hapsburg Tiara," released at the end of 2003.
0c984005f69a0b0970e1f6e2c3c55013
Giant Rat of Sumatra The Giant Rat of Sumatra is a fictional giant rat, first mentioned by Arthur Conan Doyle in "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire". As part of the tale, the protagonist, Sherlock Holmes, declares that there is a "story" connected with this rat, presumably a detective case he has handled. The name of the rat and its implied unpublished history were later used in works by many other writers.
b7aef4a7832730e4f17c34a0968465db
A Study in Scarlet A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1886, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become two of the most famous characters in popular fiction. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, an amateur detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": "There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."
020c203ea1eac747d7a203f6fa3e95ef
Nigel Sherlock SIR NIGEL SHERLOCK KCVO OBE is a career stockbroker in the North East of England who has been prominent in many aspects of public life in the region since the late 1960s.
a63f36add0d83d7dfda687335a377dd3
Young Sherlock Holmes: Red Leech Young Sherlock Holmes: Red Leech (U.S. edition title: Rebel Fire) is the second novel in the Young Sherlock Holmes series that depicts Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes as a teenager in the 1860s. It was written by Andrew Lane and released in the United Kingdom on 5 November 2010 by Macmillan Books. It is a sequel to "" and was followed by "" which was released on 26 May 2011.