Conan Doylish

Conan-Doylish English Alternative forms en Conan-Doylish Etymology From en Conan Doyle ish. Adjective 1 Resembling or characteristic of British writer and physician Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), who created the character Sherlock Holmes. en William Wallace New Novels The Academy. A Weekly Review of Literature, Science, and Art. XLV 1148 London Publishing Office:27, Chancery Lane, London, W.C. 5 May 1894 368 https://archive.org/details/academyliteratur45londuoft/page/368/mode/1up 2 The impecunious position of the hero is cleverly sketched in the first pages; but the device that is resorted to by way of extricating him from it is deficient in true humour, even although it smacks of Conan Doylish ingenuity. en A History of the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Nine Pickout 1909: The Year Book of the Lowell Textile School Lowell, Mass. May 1909 33 https://archive.org/details/pickout1909/page/n42/mode/1up This proved satisfactory to us, but we cannot quite comprehend why Dr. Wood so strenuously objected to our frequently tying down his dip, so it would not run away; or hiding his book bag so as to give him some experience in using his latent Conan Doylish deduction. en Spirit of England Is Brought to U.S. Lobbies and Lounges of Washington Hotels Appear Like Halls of London. The Champaign Daily News XXII 229 Champaign, Ill. 24 April 1917 twelve https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/668096129/ 3 After years of reading of Sherlock Holmes, it was rather expected to see a few Scotland Yard men with double-peaked plaid caps and curved pipe stems. The Scotland Yard men are here, but they are not at all “Conan Doylish.” Instead, they are dressed in correct frock coats and tall hats in strict contrast to the American secret service men, who appear like men just out of a business office or commercial house. en M. B. S. Reviews: Misinforming a Nation. By W. H. Wright.New York: B. W. Huebsch. The Smith College Monthly XXIV 7 May 1917 376–377 https://archive.org/details/smith1617smit/page/n401/mode/2up The sane dweller in the United States can hardly hope to succeed in the Conan Doylish task of looking at the Encyclopaedia Britannica as a British plot to deprive his mind of independence or to corrupt popular taste by some twenty expensive volumes, at their lightest, too heavy for his pocket. en The Literary Digest International Book Review III Funk & Wagnalls Company 1925 553 https://books.google.com/books?id=g_WDRlDF8o0C&q=%22Conan+Doylish%22 1 Rose Macaulay, author of “Potterism,” “The Dangerous Age,” and “Orphan Island,” in an article in the London Nation and Athenæum, says: “The crude, stilted, Conan Doylish English of his detective stories goes far to bear out the common theory that Mr. Bramah has a literary dual personality.” en Godfrey Elton Against the Sun London Constable & Co Ltd 1928 52 https://books.google.com/books?id=XEblkNjflZoC&q=%22Conan+Doylish%22 Mind, I don’t know or care a rap about spiritualism, though this may sound Conan Doylish. en Park J. White It Ain’t Necessarily Fröhlich’s w:The New England Journal of Medicine 265 19 9 November 1961 952 https://archive.org/details/sim_new-england-journal-of-medicine_1961-11-09_265_19/page/952/mode/1up 2 Ah, well, I must hear mamma out, — / How, using methods Conan Doylish, / So many doctors have no doubt / It’s Syndrom-e of Alfred Fröhlich. en Ralph E. Hone Dorothy L. Sayers: A Literary Biography Kent, Ohio The Kent State University Press 1979 42 https://archive.org/details/dorothylsayersli00hone/page/42/mode/1up 0-87338-228-5 Much of the plot—Stevensonian and Conan Doylish—is derived and formular: the author herself spoke of “lamentable lacunae . . . due to technical ignorance.” en w:Books and Bookmen 1982 37 https://books.google.com/books?id=RazfAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Conan+Doylish%22 1 This old-fashioned narrative method (more 1913 than 1936) is immensely seductive in a Conan Doylish sort of way — especially when Condor turns out to have such a tale to tell. en Keith Wilson Burgess raises Clockwork man from the dead The Weekend Citizen Ottawa, Ont. 5 May 1984 44 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/464683870/ Anthony Burgess’s Enderby triology is now a tetralogy, with a new volume “Composed to placate kind readers of The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby’s End, who objected to my casually killing my hero.” But this is no basely motivated literary opportunism, no Conan Doylish grave-robbery to repossess an obvious winner. en w:Russell Braddon Funnelweb London Constable 1990 127 https://archive.org/details/funnelweb0000brad/page/127/mode/1up 0 09 469930 5 Cheadle tapped Robinson’s last item with his pencil. ‘Spider webs?’ ‘A bit Conan Doylish, that one, sir.’ ‘Meaning you didn’t see any?’ en Ian Donaldson Politic Picklocks: Reading Jonson Historically Jonson’s Magic Houses: Essays in Interpretation Oxford Clarendon Press 1997 128 https://archive.org/details/jonsonsmagichous00dona/page/128/mode/1up 0-19-818394-1 In the more Conan Doylish of these studies, literature is regarded as if it were the scene of some recent large-scale crime, littered with clues—fingerprints, bloodstains, dropped wallets, spent bullets—all capable of undergoing forensic examination, and of supporting some Holmesian hunch which might ultimately lead to the apprehension of a culprit, the narration of a real-life story more absorbing than the fictional one which had lightly covered it. en w:Norman Lebrecht The Song of Names Review 2002 13 https://archive.org/details/songofnames0000lebr/page/13/mode/1up 0 7553 0094 7 Time for some pseudonyms. Can’t use X and Y – too Conan Doylish. en w:Alan Cheuse Michael Chabon’s deft tribute to novels of detection w:Chicago Tribune 158th year 326 21 November 2004 14 4 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/232178046/ 3–4 A wonderful setup of an opening chapter—Conan Doylish and yet quite stylish and Chabonesque in its own right. en Charles C Baines The Grave Deception https://books.google.com/books?id=wKBIEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT42 2020 978-1-84396-604-3 “1 You were born, what, more than 20 years before me and in those days there would have been quite a few people who would have brewed their own real ale. As for the amount you drink, it can’t be too much because you don’t have a beer belly. How is that for a little detective work of my own?” “Well, your reasons are a little, may I say, Conan Doylish. Sherlock Holmes may well have used the same reasoning but, unfortunately those twenty odd years you mentioned so cruelly may have had something to do with the fact that I can no longer tolerate the beer I so loved in my youth, which was of course… real ale!” Synonyms en Conan Doylean en eponyms en Sherlock Holmes