Hello Holmesians,
Apart from the fascinating insight, Mark has so wonderfully shown
about Sir Conan Doyle, I can add on a bit.Sir Arthur was also
involved in identifying the Piltdown man.This Piltdown man was a
skull found by an amateur anthropologist,Mr Charles Dawson who
discovered a skull which was interpreted by experts as being the
missing link which established that man had indeed descended from
ape.However ,it was much later that it was discovered that it was a
fraud perpetuated by the lawyer ,Dawson .In this affair ,conan doyle
had actually identified the skull as being authentic ,a bad case of
judgement,it seems in the retrospect.Sir arthur was also deeply
interested in seances but that is a different story which can be told
later
sumal