Conan Doyle Obituary (The Bookman UK)
This obituary was published in The Bookman (UK version) in august 1930.
Obituary
In connection with the death of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, spiritualists and others are discussing the possibility of checking his communications from the other side by means of finger prints. It is indicative of his vitality and quick interest to the end that he was deeply interested in this matter just before his death. Certain it is that he has left his mark on his own times as writer and man. Best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, he himself had long passed beyond that stage in his development and preferred to be known as the author of "The White Company," as historian, and as a scientific investigator and firm believer in the life after death and in the communication between the embodied and the disembodied. Death had no place in his beliefs nor in his estimate of life. Perhaps our finest tribute to him was our instinctive belief in his absolute sincerity even when we strongly disagreed with what he regarded as scientific proofs of communication. He lived a full life and fought a good fight and never stained a page. His last book, "The Edge of the Unknown," just issued by John Murray, has all the marks of his versatility, and courage — do you recall E. H. Lacon Watson's article in the August Bookman, 1929, on Conan Doyle as Poet?
