Doug Wrigglesworth
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
(Photo courtesy © Peggy MacFarlane)
Doug Wrigglesworth (7 august 1940 - 1 december 2024) was the co-founder and first Chairman of the Friends of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection at the Toronto Reference Library.
Publications
Essays
- 1998 : The Paw Prints of the Hound : a personal pilgrimage to the home of the Hound and its creator
- 2000 : Howzat, Holmes? Cricket and the Canon and the literary agent
- 2001 : Notes on "The Creeping Man": An introduction
- 2004 : The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor: some thoughts on the story and the scholarship
- 2004 : Some notes in introduction to The Reigate Squires
- 2005 : Arthur Conan Doyle in Canada
- 2011 : Charles Augustus Milverton: some thoughts on the story and the higher criticism
- 2011 : The Missing Three-Quarter: some thoughts on the story and the higher criticism
- 2012 : Conan Doyle in South Africa: a record by his dresser, Charles Blasson
- 2013 : Silver Blaze : some thoughts on the story and the scholarship
- 2014 : The Sherlockian library from two perspectives
- 2015 : The Cinematic Sherlock Holmes from the silents to Cumberbatch
Collaborations
- 1997 : Canonical quizzes from the bootbox : twenty-five years of puzzles from the Bootmakers of Toronto
- 2001 : Footprints of the Hound: celebrating the centenary of the return of Sherlock Holmes
- 2004 : Foreword, in "Out of the Shadows", by Gerogina Doyle
- 2006 : Welcome to Canada, Mr. Sherlock Holmes : Arthur Conan Doyle in Canada (with Christopher Redmond)
- 2016 : "A Certain Gracious Lady", in "Toast to Mrs. Henry Baker", by Donald Zaldin
- 2016 : "It Is Good to Have Friends", in "Canada and Sherlock Holmes" (BSI International series)
- 2022 : "Victorian Detectives", in "The Haven Horror" (BSI Manusctipt series)
Articles
- 1998 : Six Months of Frenetic Activity (The Magic Door Vol. 1 No. 2)
- 1999 : Friends Annual Meeting (The Magic Door Vol. 2 No. 2)
- 1999 : Tiding from Friends (The Magic Door Vol. 2 No. 3)
- 1999-2003 : News from the Friends (The Magic Door)
- 2001-2006 : Notes from the Chair (The Magic Door)
- 2001 : Rummaging for riches (The Magic Door Vol. 4 No. 1)
- 2001 : Following in the Footprints of the Hound (The Magic Door Vol. 4 No. 3)
- 2003 : A real Friend passes beyond the Reichenbach (The Magic Door Vol. 6 No. 1)
- 2003 : A Treasure Addition to the Collection (The Magic Door Vol. 6 No. 1)
- 2005 : A warm welcome to Peggy Perdue (The Magic Door Vol. 8 No. 2)
- 2005 : Arthur Conan Doyle on the Athabaska Trail: A Case of Bibliophilic Serendipity (The Magic Door Vol. 8 No. 3)
- 2006 : Memories from 35 years of a Collection (The Magic Door Vol. 9 No. 2)
- 2008-2015 : The Green Settee (The Magic Door)
- 2009 : Conan Doyle Sesquicentenary (The Magic Door Vol. 12 No. 1)
- 2012 : The Tragedy of the Korosko (The Magic Door Vol. 14 No. 1)
- 2013 : The ACD Collection is once again featured in a TD Gallery Exhibition (The Magic Door Vol. 15 No. 1)
- 2015 : Arthur Conan Doyle and the South African War (The Magic Door Vol. 16 No. 3)
- 2015 : From the Editors' Bookshelf (Canadian Holmes Vol. 38 No. 4)
- 2016 : Recent Discovery of Two Canadian Sherlockian and Doylean Connections (Canadian Holmes Vol. 39 No. 2)
- 2018 : The Decades of Friends and Family (The Magic Door Vol. 18 No. 3)
- 2018 : Dr. John H. Watson – Friend, amanuensis and admirer of women (Canadian Holmes Vol. 41 No. 3)
- 2020 : The Friends of The Arthur Conan Doyle Collections at the Toronto Reference Library (Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections, Vol. 4 No. 1, University of Minesota)
- 2022 : Edwin Van der Flaes – a tribute (Canadian Holmes Vol. 45 No. 2)
- 2022 : A Doctor and his Dresser at War – Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Blasson in South Africa 1900 (Canadian Holmes Vol. 45 No. 3)
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