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Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle

Daniel Stashower - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 504 pages
Winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Best Biographical Work, this biography looks beyond Sherlock Holmes to examine Arthur Conan Doyle, the fascinating, complex man who became an ...
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Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle

Daniel Stashower - Biography & Autobiography - 2014 - 496 pages
Winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Best Biographical Work, this is "an excellent biography of the man who created Sherlock Holmes" (David Walton, The New York Times Book Review ...
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Arthur Conan Doyle: Beyond Baker Street

Janet B. Pascal - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2000 - 161 pages
Reveals the author's life through historical photographs and narratives devoted to his literary career, adventurous travels, and major accomplishments.
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The Boy Genius and the Mogul: The Untold Story of Television

Daniel Stashower - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 306 pages
The world remembers Edison, Ford, and the Wright Brothers. But what about Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of television, an innovation that did as much as any other to shape ...
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Commando Extraordinary

Charles Foley - Biography & Autobiography - 1979 - 228 pages
"He was Hitler's favorite commando -- and a frightening menace to the Allied forces. With a handful of German Special Troops, Otto Skorzeny performed the impossible by ...
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The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of ...

Daniel Stashower - True Crime - 2007 - 404 pages
On July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the Hudson-and New York's unregulated police force proved incapable of solving ...
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