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[[File:Arthur Conan Doyle by Walter Benington, 1914.png|thumb|300px]]
The creator of [[Sherlock Holmes]] and [[The Lost World (Literaturenovel)|Professor Challenger]]. He wrote many other stories, but mostly only the ones regarding the famous detective are remembered now. Recently he's appeared as a fictional character in a series of murder mysteries featuring [[Oscar Wilde]] and Robert Sherard as the Holmes/Watson characters. Anyone with an interest in medieval history and historical fiction should read his novel, [[The White Company]], providing both an fairly accurate depiction of the subject for its time (and the knowledge they had), and a fine insight into A.C.D.'s own time; British Imperialism, The Empire (after all it was the largest ever), and the mentality that justified and drove it.
 
=== Works by Arthur Conan Doyle with their own trope pages include: ===
 
=== {{tropelist|Works by Arthur Conan Doyle with their own trope pages include: ===}}
* ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'' series
* ''[[The Lost World (Literaturenovel)|The Lost World]]''
* ''[[The White Company]]''
 
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=== {{tropelist|Other works by Arthur Conan Doyle provide examples of: ===}}
* [[Artistic License Geography]] / [[Artistic License Geology]]: ''The Terror of Blue John Gap'' has the titular cave (a source of the semi-precious stone [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_John:Blue John|Blue John]]) several miles from Castleton in Derbyshire. Blue John is in fact only found in the immediate vicinity of Castleton.
 
* [[Artistic License Geography]] / [[Artistic License Geology]]: ''The Terror of Blue John Gap'' has the titular cave (a source of the semi-precious stone [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_John Blue John]) several miles from Castleton in Derbyshire. Blue John is in fact only found in the immediate vicinity of Castleton.
* [[Flying Seafood Special]]: ''The Horror Of The Heights''.
* [[My Card]]: Common due to the Victorian setting.
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** Doyle himself in real life had a soft spot for sad stories. Doyle was even known as the Champion of the Oppressed for some time after his much publized campaign against Racial Profiling.
** Painfully averted with Professor Challenger who after learning that a poisonous gas was about to kill every human in the face of the Earth keeps it a secret and goes to build himself a panic room and invites only a few of his friends and their wives to join him as they all see with apathy how everyone, including Challenger's faithful servants who never stopped working, dies.
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]] / [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Really Four Thousand Years Old]]: ''[http://www.online-literature.com/doyle/captain_polestar/10/ The Ring of Thoth]''.
 
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