Although he is now referred to as "Conan Doyle", the origin of this compound surname (if that is how he meant it to be understood) is uncertain. His baptism record in the registry of St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh gives 'Arthur Ignatius Conan' as his Christian name, and simply 'Doyle' as his surname. It also names Michael Conan as his godfather. For elements not found in the Strand Magazine illustrations I used reference photos of Victorian era items.

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The illustration has also been displayed in an exhibition in Italy. The photo above on the right came from a video promoting the exhibition. At the age of nine Conan Doyle was sent to the Roman Catholic Jesuit preparatory school, Hodder Place, Stonyhurst. He then went on to Stonyhurst College, leaving in 1875. During those thirteen years I had read the stories again and again, and listened to them countless times in audio book form and came across details which should have been reflected in the original illustration. I created the second version in 2008 when I was 51, thirteen years after the first version. I converted the first version to vector art and made modifications and additions in Adobe Illustrator. urn:lcp:classicillustrat0000doyl:lcpdf:e436596b-0222-4850-85b6-e3ed57686b52 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier classicillustrat0000doyl Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3rv7r65x Invoice 1213 Isbn 0681401893Based on my experience with the first two versions, I imagine that some people would like to own a high resolution print of this illustration. I'm trying to figure out the best way to have these printed and made available. And the only obstacle was the prohibitive cost. This unique dwelling happened to be located on Baker Street among the crowded and simple dwellings that working class families could afford, but it was not cheap. Baker Street was later extended, but 221B still did not exist because there was a large building at that location called Abbey House which took up the space of several numbers including 221. A space behind the head of the bed large enough to allow Watson to hide: The Adventure of the Dying Detective I started out with the intention of conforming the general layout in the third version to a terraced house which seems to be the trend among recent 221B Baker Street depictions, including movies and TV dramas. But after some research I rejected this idea as unsupported and causing more problems than it solves. See the section below, Was 221B Baker Street a Terraced House? for more details.

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I’ve been thinking of Doyle’s spiritualism lately and what Holmes would have made of it all. I can’t help feeling that there might have been words between the two of them and tuts and the slow shaking of the head. That is, I sometimes wonder if Holmes, the character, was more necessary, in a sense, than Doyle the writer. I know that sounds like a silly thing to say, but I think it might be at least a little true too. Pugh, Brian W (2011). A Chronology of the Life of Arthur Conan Doyle. Andrews UK. ISBN 978-1-78092-199-0 . Retrieved 16 February 2018– via Google Books.Holmes next goes to the office from which the plans were stolen. Sidney Johnson, the senior clerk, tells Holmes that, as always, he was the last man out of the office that night, and that he had put the papers in the safe. Anyone coming in afterwards to steal them would have needed three keys (for the building, the office, and the safe), but no duplicates were found on West's body, and only the late Sir James had all three keys. Johnson also mentions that one of the seven recovered papers includes an invention without which the submarine could not be properly built. Holmes also discovers that it is possible to see what is happening inside the office from outside even when the iron shutters are closed. A coal scuttle containing cigars, pipes and tobacco: The Musgrave Ritual and The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone The extra arm chair in the bow window in The Mazarin Stone has also been removed. Apparently that chair was Holmes' own arm chair as Watson's armchair was still in its regular place. Whenever anyone asked me if they could use the illustration in a publication or game, I freely granted permission. This increased its exposure and made it famous all around the world.

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If one follows the actual facts in the stories, then one must abandon the theory of a terraced house. The facts don't fit.

As annoying as Holmes may have become to Doyle, we have many reasons to be glad that he was resurrected. The Bookman: A Review of Books and Life, vol. 75, p. 354, 1932, available online at books.google.com, accessed 6 December 2008 The books were not illustrated, but the flat at 221B Baker Street flat began to take shape in my imagination. They apparently chose to conform to the architecture of typical dwellings on Baker Street at the time rather than deal with the absolutely unique dwelling described in The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone. We know from The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone that Holmes' bedroom is connected to the sitting room by two doors, so the two rooms must be considered as one unit.