Conan-Doylish

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1. alternativeAlternative form of Conan Doylish.

   A new romance, full of adventure and replete with wonderful “Conan-Doylish” strategy, is in our hands.

   1895 November 23, “Among the New Books”, in Portage Daily Register, volume VIII, number 224, Portage, Wis., front page, column 2

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   I knew the book, and the part where his finger kept the place, for I have the habit of noting details as I go about the world—a sort of Sherlock Holmesy, Conan-Doylish gift, or trick, inherited doubtless from some Calvinistic forbear, I expect.

   1908, Hume Nisbet, The Dragon and the Chrysanthemum, London: De La Roche, […], page 58

   Conan-Doylish ability characterizes this narration, which ends on a note of mellow, pre-eminently mature, human wisdom.

   1951 autumn, Elio Gianturco, “Mario Soldati. A cena col Commendatore. […]”, in Books Abroad: An International Literary Quarterly, volume 25, number 4, Norman, Okla.: The University of Oklahoma Press, page 383, column 2

   Captain Chandler and Wynee Whiteford provide entertaining variants of the ‘time machine’ genre, with traditional Wellsian or Conan-Doylish eccentrics; […]

   1983, Australian Book Review, page 3

   […] Anna Katharine Green invented Ebenezer Gryce, who comes somewhere between the Dickensian-Collinsian detective-in-a-story and the Conan-Doylish detective-in-a-detective-story.

   1994, J.K. Van Dover, You Know My Method: The Science of the Detective, Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, →ISBN, pages 50–51