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	''Recollections of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, by Residents of Crowborough'' gathers local memories and testimonies about Conan Doyle from people connected with Crowborough. The booklet is a documentary source for Conan Doyle's later years, his presence in the local community, and the memory of his life at Windlesham.<br>		''Recollections of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, by Residents of Crowborough'' gathers local memories and testimonies about Conan Doyle from people connected with Crowborough. The booklet is a documentary source for Conan Doyle's later years, his presence in the local community, and the memory of his life at Windlesham.<br>
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			'''Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Freemasonry'''<br>
			''By Robert T. Runciman; edited by Philip L. Weller''<br>
			''Sherlock Publications''<br>
			''1993''<br>
			''20 pages (unnumbered)''<br>
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			A study on masonic references in the Sherlock Holmes Canon and Arthur Conan Doyle's connection with Freemasonry. The text is a revised reprint of Robert T. Runciman's article first published in ''Ars Quatuor Coronatorum''.<br>
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	''Recollections of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, by Residents of Crowborough'' gathers local memories and testimonies about Conan Doyle from people connected with Crowborough. The booklet is a documentary source for Conan Doyle's later years, his presence in the local community, and the memory of his life at Windlesham.<br>		''Recollections of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, by Residents of Crowborough'' gathers local memories and testimonies about Conan Doyle from people connected with Crowborough. The booklet is a documentary source for Conan Doyle's later years, his presence in the local community, and the memory of his life at Windlesham.<br>
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			'''Doctor Joe Bell: Model for Sherlock Holmes'''<br>
			''By Ely Liebow''<br>
			''Bowling Green University Popular Press''<br>
			''1982''<br>
			''270 pages''<br>
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			Biography of Dr. Joseph Bell, the Edinburgh physician whose remarkable powers of observation and deduction inspired Arthur Conan Doyle in the creation of Sherlock Holmes. The book examines Bell's medical career, teaching methods, personality, and lasting influence on detective fiction through Conan Doyle's famous detective.<br>
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			'''Bertram Fletcher Robinson: A Footnote to The Hound of the Baskervilles'''<br>
			''By Brian W. Pugh & Paul R. Spiring''<br>
			''MX Publishing''<br>
			''2008''<br>
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			A study of Bertram Fletcher Robinson and his connection with ''The Hound of the Baskervilles''. The book examines Robinson's role in the background and genesis of Conan Doyle's famous Sherlock Holmes novel, making it a focused literary-historical study of one major work.<br>
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	''Houdini and Doyle'' is an early account of the friendship between Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle. The book documents the personal bond between the magician and the author, and the spiritualist disagreement that eventually divided them~~. It belongs here as a study of friendship and personal network, while also overlapping with Conan Doyle's spiritualist biography~~.<br>		''Houdini and Doyle'' is an early account of the friendship between Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle. The book documents the personal bond between the magician and the author, and the spiritualist disagreement that eventually divided them.<br>
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	Based on original correspondence, photographs, and his own extensive research, Massimo Polidoro reconstructs this unusual friendship between a believer and a skeptic, which weathered mediums, seances, an apparition of Houdini's departed mother, automatic writing by Conan Doyle's wife, public debunkings, and hurt feelings.<br>		Based on original correspondence, photographs, and his own extensive research, Massimo Polidoro reconstructs this unusual friendship between a believer and a skeptic, which weathered mediums, seances, an apparition of Houdini's departed mother, automatic writing by Conan Doyle's wife, public debunkings, and hurt feelings.<br>
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			'''Recollections of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, by Residents of Crowborough'''<br>
			''By Malcolm Payne & Philip Weller''<br>
			''Privately published''<br>
			''1993''<br>
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			''Recollections of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, by Residents of Crowborough'' gathers local memories and testimonies about Conan Doyle from people connected with Crowborough. The booklet is a documentary source for Conan Doyle's later years, his presence in the local community, and the memory of his life at Windlesham.<br>
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''Family and Personal Networks Biographical Books'' lists books about [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s family, friendships, personal relationships, collaborators, social circles, and private or semi-private networks. These works examine [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Conan Doyle]] through the people around him: relatives, friends, associates, correspondents, local acquaintances, and figures who played an important role in his personal or public life.

The books are listed in reverse chronological order.

== Books about Conan Doyle and Family/Friends ==

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'''The Budds of the West Country'''<br>
''By Brian W. Pugh''<br>
''Privately published''<br>
''2012''<br>
''90 pages''<br>
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''The Budds of the West Country'' is a fully researched history of the Budd family in Devon and Gloucestershire, focusing on the family from 1716-1860. It contains the history of each family of the Budd dynasty, a family tree, a brief essay on Arthur Conan Doyle and the Budds, the relations and the census, plus many photographs of which some have not been published before.<br>
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'''Masters of Mystery: The Strange Friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini'''<br>
''By Christopher Sandford''<br>
''St. Martin's Griffin''<br>
''2011''<br>
''304 pages''<br>
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''Masters of Mystery'' studies the friendship between Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini, two famous public figures whose relationship was shaped by admiration, disagreement, spiritualism, scepticism, and celebrity.<br>
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'''Buzzin In Sussex: An Investigation Into The Connections of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, His Family and Sherlock Holmes'''<br>
''By Brian W. Pugh''<br>
''Privately published''<br>
''2005''<br>
''? pages''<br>
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''Buzzin In Sussex'' investigates the Sussex connections of Arthur Conan Doyle, his family, and Sherlock Holmes. The booklet belongs here because it combines local history with family and personal associations, tracing the network of people and places connected with Conan Doyle in Sussex.

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'''Out of the Shadows'''<br>
''By Georgina Doyle''<br>
''Ash Tree Press''<br>
''2004''<br>
''382 pages''<br>
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''Out of the Shadows'' is a family-focused biographical book about Arthur Conan Doyle's first family. Written from within the Doyle family circle, it gives particular attention to the domestic and personal side of Conan Doyle's life, making it especially relevant to studies of his family relationships.<br>
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'''Final Séance: The Strange Friendship Between Houdini and Conan Doyle'''<br>
''By Massimo Polidoro''<br>
''Prometheus Books''<br>
''2001''<br>
''264 pages''<br>
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Based on original correspondence, photographs, and his own extensive research, Massimo Polidoro reconstructs this unusual friendship between a believer and a skeptic, which weathered mediums, seances, an apparition of Houdini's departed mother, automatic writing by Conan Doyle's wife, public debunkings, and hurt feelings.<br>
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'''The Doyle Diary: The Last Great Conan Doyle Mystery'''<br>
''By Michael Baker''<br>
''Paddington Press''<br>
''1978''<br>
''92 pages''<br>
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''The Doyle Diary'' is a diary-sketchbook of Charles Altamont Doyle, father of Arthur Conan Doyle. The book inckludes an introductioon by Michael Baker, and a page transcription of the words of Charles Doyle as they appear in the diary.<br>
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'''Houdini and Doyle: The Story of a Strange Friendship'''<br>
''By Bernard M. L. Ernst & Hereward Carrington''<br>
''Albert & Charles Boni''<br>
''1932''<br>
''250 pages''<br>
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''Houdini and Doyle'' is an early account of the friendship between Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle. The book documents the personal bond between the magician and the author, and the spiritualist disagreement that eventually divided them. It belongs here as a study of friendship and personal network, while also overlapping with Conan Doyle's spiritualist biography.<br>
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