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  1. In 1912, “Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the world’s most celebrated fictional detective, had turned detective himself in an actual murder case – in the process liberating a man who had spent nearly twenty years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit”

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    crimereads.com/arthur-conan-do

    #Scottish #literature #Edwardian #Glasgow #Crimewriting #Sherlock #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay #ArthurConanDoyle #truecrime

  2. Although Barrie is remembered today almost exclusively for PETER PAN, he was a prominent 19th-century novelist & the most successful British playwright of the early 20th century.

    GATEWAY TO THE MODERN, edited by Valentina Bold & Andrew Nash, explores Barrie’s multifarious career

    @litstudies

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    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #19thcentury #Victorian #20thcentury #Edwardian #PeterPan #drama #cinema #cinemahistory