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Arthur Conan Doyle (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

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Arthur Conan Doyle’s more than one hundred published works include novels, autobiography, political treatises, plays adapted from his fiction, and works on spiritualism as well as his short stories, for which he is best known. His character Sherlock Holmes has been the subject of innumerable films, plays, and radio scripts and has become the archetype of the conventional detective hero.

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While Doyle was not the first to write short stories featuring a detective with great analytical powers, and while he acknowledged his debt...

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