The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes : The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Paperback)

from john257hopper

This was a very comprehensive and readable biography. While knowing this point already, I was struck again by the fact that Sherlock Holmes represents a fairly small portion of his life and output, and not one that he initially rated highly, until its great success changed his attitude to some ex...

from JenniferPetkus

Almost a year after starting it, I've finished The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes: The Life and Time of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Please don't think, however, that the slowness of my reading in any way indicates that I found this biography uninteresting; it's simply an incredibly comprehensive, we...

from bookswoman

Well, not read, completely. There is a lot of really good stuff here, but it is a very dense book with lots and lots of detail and I just can't seem to concentrate on it. I think I might be in a "no non-fiction" mood lately which doesn't bode well for the books I've got here right now from the pu...

from JeffreyMarks

Great details on the man. I think the amount of details stemmed from the number of new sources permitted to be quoted for this new biography. Definitely a man of contradictions.

from john257hopper

This was a very comprehensive and readable biography. While knowing this point already, I was struck again by the fact that Sherlock Holmes represents a fairly small portion of his life and output, and not one that he initially rated highly, until its great success changed his attitude to some ex...