Tras las huellas de Arthur Conan Doyle: Un viaje ilustrado por Devon - Softcover

Brian Pugh and Paul Spiring worked long and hard researching and writing On the Trail of Arthur Conan Doyle: An Illustrated Devon Tour. The result is most attractively presented. Its succinct account of Conan Doyles association with Devon and with George Turnavine Budd and Bertram Fletcher Robinson is invaluable, and just to follow the Devon Tour on paper is fascinating. Its remarkable that, despite the recent publication of ACD's Letters and Andrew Lycett's formidable biography, there's still a place (that's not strong enough: there's still a need) for carefully researched and well-presented books that concentrate on specific aspects of ACD's life. On the Trail of Arthur Conan Doyle has a proud place alongside Geoffrey Stavert's A Study in Southsea and Owen Dudley Edwards' The Quest for Sherlock Holmes. --The Sherlock Holmes Journal - Roger Johnson

The lives of few writers, if any, during the past couple of centuries, can be as rewarding to the student as that of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This gifted novelist and short story writer - famed for the creation of probably the most famous fictional detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes - led a varied, full and at times exciting life, and the part of it based in Devon is brought to life in a fascinating, most informative way, by Brian W Pugh and Paul R Spiring in this excellent book. While Doyles wider life is referred to, the main thrust of the book is aimed at his life locally, chronicling the people he met, or with whom he worked, and the influence which they and the local area had upon his writing. Readers in West Devon will recognise so many of the places which Doyle visited and which sowed in his fertile mind seeds for future tales. Mention is made of a trip to Tavistock during which it is probable that the idea for his story Silver Blaze was born. In this tale set in Dartmoor, Tavistock is mentioned, and also it contains probably Holmes' most famous link, where he draws the attention of a local police inspector 'to the curious incident of the dog in the night time.' Dartmoor, of course, looms large in Doyle's most famous work - 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' - with the authors tracking down the places and local legends upon which the chilling tale is based with a skill and tenacity the great detective himself would have been proud of. The economical, direct style of the writing, and the wealth of exhaustively researched information contained therein, make this a first class read for those serious students of Sherlock Holmes and/or Dartmoor, whilst for those who just enjoy a rattling good tale it will be a welcome acquisition. --The Tavistock Times Gazette - Ted Sherrell

The lives of few writers, if any, during the past couple of centuries, can be as rewarding to the student as that of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This gifted novelist and short story writer - famed for the creation of probably the most famous fictional detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes - led a varied, full and at times exciting life, and the part of it based in Devon is brought to life in a fascinating, most informative way, by Brian W Pugh and Paul R Spiring in this excellent book. While Doyles wider life is referred to, the main thrust of the book is aimed at his life locally, chronicling the people he met, or with whom he worked, and the influence which they and the local area had upon his writing. Readers in West Devon will recognise so many of the places which Doyle visited and which sowed in his fertile mind seeds for future tales. Mention is made of a trip to Tavistock during which it is probable that the idea for his story Silver Blaze was born. In this tale set in Dartmoor, Tavistock is mentioned, and also it contains probably Holmes' most famous link, where he draws the attention of a local police inspector 'to the curious incident of the dog in the night time.' Dartmoor, of course, looms large in Doyle's most famous work - 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' - with the authors tracking down the places and local legends upon which the chilling tale is based with a skill and tenacity the great detective himself would have been proud of. The economical, direct style of the writing, and the wealth of exhaustively researched information contained therein, make this a first class read for those serious students of Sherlock Holmes and/or Dartmoor, whilst for those who just enjoy a rattling good tale it will be a welcome acquisition. --The Tavistock Times Gazette - Ted Sherrell