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Index
Note: The abbreviation ACD refers to Arthur Conan Doyle.
Adam, Robert, here
Addison, Joseph, here
“The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle” (Doyle), here
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (Verne), here
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Doyle), here
advertising, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, here
Aesthetic movement, here, here
L’Affaire Lerouge (The Widow Lerouge) (Gaboriau), here, here
alcoholism
of ACD’s father, here, here, here, here
in The Sign of Four, here
All the Year Round (periodical), here, here, here
“The American’s Tale” (Doyle), here, here, here
André, Richard, here
“Anne Rodway’s Diary” (Collins), here
anonymous publishing, here
anthrax, here
“An Unwritten Drama of Lord Byron” (Irving), here
Arouet, François-Marie. See Voltaire
“The Atheist’s Mass” (Balzac), here
Atlantic (periodical), here
Bacon, Francis, here
Ball, Henry, here
Balzac, Honoré de, here, here, here
Bancroft, George, here
Barr, Robert, here
Barrie, James, here
Baudelaire, Charles, here
Beagle (ship), here
Beeton, Samuel Orchart, here
Beeton’s Christmas Annual (periodical), here, here, here
Bell, Charles, here
Bell, Joseph
and ACD, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
deductive diagnostic skills of, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
and diphtheria, here
medical positions held by, here, here, here
as model for Sherlock Holmes, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
on observation, here
retirement of, here
and Robert Louis Stevenson, here
treating sick and abused children, here
“The Beryl Coronet” (Doyle), here
Bettany, George Thomas, here
Bettany, Jeanie Gwynne, here
Birmingham Weekly Mercury, here
The Black Arrow (Stevenson), here, here
Blackie, John Stuart, here
Blackwood’s (periodical), here, here
Blairerno House, here, here, here, here
Blathwayt, Raymond, here, here
Bleak House (Dickens), here, here, here
“Bones” (Doyle), here
Bookman (periodical), here, here
The Boscombe Valley Mystery (Doyle), here
Boswell, James, here, here
bounty hunters, here
Bowden, James, here
Bow Street Runners, here
Boy’s Own Paper, here
Bristol Observer (periodical), here, here
Brontë, Charlotte, here
Broughton, Rhoda, here
Brown, Alexander Crum, here
Browne, Hablot K. (Phiz), here
Browne, William, here
Budd, George, here
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, here, here, here
Burke, William, here, here
Calabar ordeal-bean, here, here
Called Back (Conway), here, here
“The Captain of the ‘Pole-Star’” (Doyle), here
The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales (Doyle), here
Carlyle, Thomas, here, here
Carmilla (Le Fanu), here
Carr, J. Comyns, here
Carroll, Lewis, here
Carte, Richard D’Oyly, here
“A Case of Identity” (Doyle), here
Cassell’s Family Magazine, here, here
Cassidy, Francis, here
Castlemore, Charles Ogier de Batz de, here
Century (periodical), here
Charles II (king of England), here, here
Charpentier, Ernest G., here
Chaucer, here
The Child, the Wise Man, and the Devil (Kernahan), here
chloroform, here
Chopin, Frederic, here
Christie, Agatha, here
Christison, Robert, here, here, here, here, here, here
Churchill, Charles, here
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. See Mormons
Cinq semaines en ballon (Five Weeks in a Balloon) (Verne), here
clairvoyance, here, here
Clarissa (Richardson), here
The Cloister and the Hearth (Reade), here
Clouston, Thomas, here
cocaine, here, here, here
Cock Lane Ghost, here
Collins, Wilkie, here, here, here, here
Comic Dramatists of the Restoration (Hunt), here
Conan, Michael (great-uncle), here
Conway, Hugh, here, here
Cook, Phillip Pendleton, here
“The Copper Beeches” (Doyle), here, here
The Cornhill (periodical), here, here, here
Corvisart, Jean-Nicolas, here
Count Robert of Paris (Scott), here, here
Cowper, James, here
Critical and Historical Essays (Macaulay), here
Curor, A. L., here
Currie, Claud, here, here
Cuvier, Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, here, here
Daniel (biblical prophet), here, here, here
D’Artagnan Romances, here. See also specific titles
Darwin, Charles, here, here, here, here
Dauder, Alphonse, here
Davy, Humphrey, here
A Dead Man’s Diary (Kernahan), here
deductive reasoning
and Joseph Bell, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
and Jean Cuvier, here
and development of detectives, here
and fictional detectives, here, here
and medical diagnoses, here, here, here, here
and Sherlock Holmes character, here, here, here, here
deerstalker hats, here, here
Dei Gratia (ship), here
de Maupassant, Guy, here
de Quincey, Thomas, here
detective characters in literature. See also
Sherlock Holmes character
ACD’s interest in, here
Barr’s Eugène Valmont character, here
Book of Daniel, here,
here, here
Christie’s Hercule Poirot character, here
Collins’s Sergeant Cuff, here
Dickens’s Inspector Bucket character, here
Dumas’s d’Artagnan character, here, here, here
Gaboriau’s Lecoq character, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Gaboriau’s Père Tabaret character, here
Fergus Hume’s Detective Gorby character, here
as intellectual crime fighters, here, here
Poe’s Dupin character, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
and science, here, here, here, here, here, here
as seekers of justice, here, here
Voltaire’s Zadig character, here, here, here, here, here, here
detective fiction
development of, here, here, here, here
and real-life memoirs, here, here
Detroit Free Press, here
Dickens, Charles
and All the Year Round, here, here, here
crusading novels of, here
and Great Ormond Street Hospital, here
and Inspector Bucket character, here, here
and periodical publication, here
and popularization of police detectives, here, here
Dickens, Charles, Jr., here
Dickinson, Emily, here
Dickinson, Maggie, here
diphtheria, here
Doyle, Anne Mary Frances Conan “Tottie” “Annette” (sister), here, here, here, here
Doyle, Arthur Conan. See also A Study in Scarlet (Doyle)
and Joseph Bell, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
as bohemian, here
The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales, here
childhood and early education, here, here, here, here
and Michael Conan, here
correspondence with mother, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
and death of Jack Hawkins, here, here
development of Sherlock Holmes character, here, here, here, here, here, here
development of John Watson character, here, here
early novels, here
early published stories, here, here, here
and Émile Gaboriau, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
interviews with, here
and Thomas Macaulay, here, here, here
and Samuel McClure, here
marriage, here, here
medical practice in Portsmouth, here, here, here, here, here
as medical student, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Micah Clarke, here, here, here, here, here, here
and photography, here, here, here
and Poe, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
and reading fiction, here
relationship with father, here, here, here, here, here, here
and religion, here
retirement from medicine, here
search for first medical practice, here
and Sherlock Holmes illustrations, here, here, here, here, here, here
The Sign of Four, here, here, here, here, here
and W. H. Smith, here
and spiritualism, here, here
and sports and physical activity, here, here, here, here, here
and Robert Louis Stevenson, here, here, here
and Strand Magazine Sherlock Holmes stories, here, here, here, here, here, here
success as writer, here, here
voyage aboard Mayumba, here
and A. P. Watt, here, here
whaling voyage aboard Hope, here, here, here, here
Doyle, Bryan Mary Julia Josephine “Dodo” (sister), here
Doyle, Caroline Mary Burton “Lottie” (sister), here, here, here, here, here, here
Doyle, Charles Altamont (father)
in ACD’s fiction, here
alcoholism and incarceration of, here, here, here, here, here, here
as artist, here, here, here, here, here, here
and Office of Works position, here, here, here
and reviews for Micah Clarke, here
Doyle, Constance Amelia Monica “Conny” (sister), here, here, here, here
Doyle, Jane Adelaide Rose “Ida” (sister), here
Doyle, Janet (aunt), here
Doyle, John (grandfather), here
Doyle, John Frances Innes Hay “Duff” (brother), here, here, here, here
Doyle, Louise Hawkins “Touie” (wife)
and ACD’s success as writer, here, here
and birth of daughter, here
and Charles Doyle, here
marriage to ACD, here, here, here
move to Vienna, Austria, here
and “A Sordid Affair,” here
and A Study in Scarlet, here
Doyle, Mary (mother)
and ACD’s childhood, here, here, here, here
and ACD’s father’s alcoholism and incarceration, here, here, here, here, here, here
and ACD’s medical practice in Portsmouth, here, here, here, here
correspondence with ACD, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
financial difficulties of, here, here, here, here
financial support of ACD’s education, here, here
and The Firm of Girdlestone, here
Doyle, Mary Louise Conan (daughter), here, here
Doyle, Richard “Dickie” (uncle), here, here, here, here, here
Doyle family, here
Drayson, Alfred Wilks, here
Dreamland and Ghostland (anthology), here
The Duchess of Padua (Wilde), here
Duffus, James, here
Dumas, Alexandre, here, here, here, here
Dupuytren, Guillaume, here
The Dynamiter (Stevenson), here
Edinburgh, Scotland, here, here, here, here
Edinburgh University, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Edison, Thomas, here
Edward III (king of England), here
“Elias B. Hopkins” (Doyle), here
Eliot, George, here
Elliot, Henry Francis, here
“The Engineer’s Thumb” (Doyle), here
English Illustrated (periodical), here
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness (Godwin), here
The Essentials of Materia Medica and Therapeutics (Garrod), here, here, here, here
“Eureka” (Poe), here
Evelyn, John, here
Evening News, here, here
Ewing, Juliana H., here
The Family Scapegrace (Payn), here
Far from the Madding Crowd (Hardy), here
Fargus, Frederick John, here, here
“The Fate of the Evangeline” (Doyle), here
Faulds, Henry, here
Female Life Among the Mormons (Ward), here
Féval, Paul, here
Field, Charles, here, here
Fielding, Henry, here
fingerprints, here
The Firm of Girdlestone (Doyle), here, here, here
FitzRoy, Robert, here
“Five Orange Pips” (Doyle), here
flashback technique, here, here, here
Flaubert, Gustave, here, here
Food for Powder (Snow), here
Forbes, David, here, here, here
forensics, here
Forster, John, here
The Four-Leaved Shamrock (Hamilton), here
Fraser, Thomas Richard, here, here, here
Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, here
Friston, D. H., here, here
From the Earth to the Moon (Verne), here
Gaboriau, Émile
comparisons of ACD’s writing to, here
influence on Fergus Hume, here
and Lecoq character, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, h
ere, here, here, here
and Père Tabaret character, here
and Eugène Vidocq, here, here, here
Garfield, James A., here
Garnet, Henry Highland, here
Garrod, Alfred Baring, here, here, here, here
Gautier, Théophile, here
gelseminum, here, here, here, here
The Gift (Poe), here
Gilbert, W. S., here
Gil Blas (Lesage), here
Gill, Thomas Patrick, here
Gladstone, William E., here
Glasgow Herald, here, here
Godwin, William, here
“The Gold Bug” (Poe), here
Goldsmith, Oliver, here
Good Words for the Young (periodical), here
Gordon, Thomas, here
Graphic (periodical), here
Green, Anna Katharine, here, here, here, here
Greenough Smith, Herbert, here, here, here
Gregson, J. Gelsen, here
“The Gully of Bluemansdyke” (Doyle), here, here
Gunter, Archibald Clavering, here
Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer (Scott), here
Gwynne, Mary Jean Hickling, here
Haité, George Charles, here
Hamilton, Catherine Jane, here
Hampshire Telegraph, here
The Happy Prince and Other Fables (Wilde), here
Hard Cash (Reade), here, here
Hardy, Thomas, here, here
Hare, William, here, here
Harper & Brothers (publisher), here
Harper’s, here, here
Harte, Bret, here, here
Hawkins, Emily, here, here
Hawkins, John “Jack,” here, here, here
Hebra, Ferdinand von, here
Henry VIII (king of England), here
Hippocrates, here
History of England (Macaulay), here, here
HMS Challenger, here
Hoare, Reginald, here, here, here
Hoffmann, E. T. A., here
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, here, here
Holmes, Sherlock. See Sherlock Holmes character
Home, Francis, here
Hope (whaling ship), here, here
“Hop-Frog” (Poe), here
Horace, here
Household Words (periodical), here, here, here
The House of Rimmon (Bettany), here
How, Harry, here
Howden, James, here
Hugo, Victor, here, here
Hume, David, here
Hume, Fergus, here
Humphreys, David, here
Hunt, Leigh, here
Hutton, James, here
Huxley, Thomas, here, here
Hyde, Edward, here
Icaromenippus (Lucian), here
Idler (periodical), here