Owen Dudley Edwards
Owen Dudley Edwards (born 27 march 1938) is an Irish historian and former Reader in Commonwealth and American History at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is the author of many highly acclaimed books, including biographical studies of P.G. Wodehouse, Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle.
He has been Honorary member and President of the The Arthur Conan Doyle Society from 1999 to 2003, where he has published 10 articles in the ACD Journal, and on the facsimile production of The Adventure of the Dying Detective, and has edited and introduced a new edition of The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard, published by Canongate.
He was also interviewed in many TV documentaries about Arthur Conan Doyle (see below).
Bibliography
Related to Arthur Conan Doyle, he wrote :
Biographical study
Manuscript
- The Dying Detective, by Arthur Conan Doyle" (A facsimile of the original Sherlock Holmes manuscript) afterword
Articles :
- Conan Doyle as Historian: A Starting Point (1990)
- The Search for Sherlock (1991)
- The Mystery of The Mystery of Cloomber (1991)
- William Wallace Robson (1993)
- Angels of Darkness and the Genesis of A Study in Scarlet (1994)
- Scream for Jeeves: A Parody (1994)
- Criminal Convictions (1994)
- ACD-JGS: An Appreciation of Julian Symons (1995)
- Sherlock Holmes: The Major Stories with Contemporary Critical Essays (1995)
- ACD 1989-1999 (1999)
Documentaries
Owen Dudley Edwards was interviewed as a Conan Doyle expert in the following TV documentaries :
- The Mysterious Affair of Sherlock Holmes and the Visionary Doctor (1999)
- Sherlock Holmes: The True Story (2003)
- The Man Who Loved Sherlock Holmes (2005)
- The Shackles of Sherlock (2007)
- Elementary My Dear Viewer (2007)
- The Search for Sherlock Holmes (2009)
- The Man Who Murdered Sherlock Holmes (2010)
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