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[edit] The Hound of the Baskervilles

There is much wrong with this article, most of which has been covered above, but one major omission is that of "the Hound of the Baskervilles" which was published after Holmes' death, but before "The Empty House". Admittedly, it was set before the Reichenbach Falls, but "The Hound" is an extremely important novel.

210.10.173.201 03:20, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

I was surprised to find no mention of the controversary over whether Doyle stole the Hound of the Baskervilles from Fletcher Robinson and later murdered him. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article567525.ece I saw a show saying they were going to exhume Robinson's body in 2006 and test to see if any traces of the poison laudanum. Does anyone know if this was ever done and what the results were? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.15.146.159 (talk) 00:38, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

The following links address the outcome of the proposed exhumation: http://www.mxpublishing.co.uk/engine/shop/page/News and Bertram Fletcher Robinson. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TedSherrell (talk • contribs) 08:22, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Platonic?

"He married Jean Elizabeth Leckie in 1907 but had maintained a platonic relationship with her out of loyalty to his first wife. Jean died 27 June 1940.

Conan Doyle had five children, two with his first wife <...> and three with his second wife, (3) Denis Percy Stewart (17 March 1909 – 9 March 1955)<...>, (4) Adrian Malcolm (1910–1970) and (5) Jean Lena Annette (1912–1997)."

Um? Is the article using a different definition of "platonic relationship" or what? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.135.201.150 (talk) 19:51, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

It is perhaps not clear enough, but he maintained a platonic relationship with Jean for several years while still married to his first wife Louise. Doyle married Jean and the relationship became non-Platonic after Louise's death. Alboran (talk) 00:30, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps leave Plato out of it. Spanglej (talk) 01:11, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Headings

"Life" and "Death"? I believe this article could be broken up into better sections. We need to make some headings and sub headings.... any objections? If not, I'll do it. :D hannah.JOY. (talk) 23:58, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Absolutely - add headings. Spanglej (talk) 01:10, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] 1908 Olympic Games in London

The finish line run of Dorando Pietri. Left: referee Jack Andrew; right: Dr. Michael Bulger.

During the 1908 Summer Olympics in London Lord Northcliffe commissioned Conan Doyle to cover the Marathon Race for the Daily Mail. There, Italian Dorando Pietri was disqualified because the referee and doctors had helped him across the line after he had collapsed. Doyle's emotional report on this drama (Daily Mail, 25 July 1908) finished with a plea that Pietri's performance not be forgotten, together with a letter starting a fund to assist Pietri. Doyle's report is probably the reason for the unfounded myth that he himself had helped Pietri across the line.^[1]

I added the above section to the article after first reading it in the German de:Arthur Conan Doyle. It has just been removed with the edit summary "minor incident not meriting such treatment". Rather than reverting I'll wait to see what other editors think. The incident is also described in the Italian wikipedia article. How about instead of deleting sourced content, improve it by rewriting it? For example reduce the treatment to just one sentence but add something about Doyle's sports interests? The cited source included other material on Doyle's connections with not only the 1908 Olympics but the preparations for Britain's entry in the 1912 Berlin Olympics. So, how about a section "Doyle and Sports? - 84user (talk) 16:45, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Ophthalmology

For anyone interested:

Edmund_Landolt#Curiosity - found this linking to Doyle when researching to write the Landolt article.

 Edmundmedmunn (talk) (also know as Essexesd) 21:38, 8 August 2009 (UTC)