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This Work of Storytelling reproduces a remarkable speech by Arthur Conan Doyle at the Author's Club in 1896, including a facsimile of his hand-written manuscript, a transcription, and insightful commentary about his literary ventures, family concerns, far-flung travels, and club commitments around the time of this talk.

Reading the speech is like hearing Conan Doyle himself. It is personal and good-humored, appreciative of his literary heroes, full of anecdotes about his early, struggling years as a writer and his bemusement at the annoyances of celebrity, and offers kindly advice to fellow writers. It s rich in witty insights into what led him into detective fiction, and his true feelings about his most famous creation:

“I have been much blamed for doing that gentleman to death but I hold that it was not murder but justifiable homicide in self defence since if I had not killed him he would certainly have killed me.” There are few better ways to fall under Conan Doyle's spell than by reading this speech.

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