This episode, we travel back to where it all began with Conan Doyle’s first published work, ‘The Mystery of Sasassa Valley’ (1879).
You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Mystery_of_Sasassa_Valley
You can read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/08/29-mystery-of-sasassa-valley-1879.html
A closed-caption version of the episode will appear two days after the episode date at our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSy23ujzPCKpttfaUwceFfA
Next time on Doings of Doyle
We are joined by Professor Douglas Kerr, General Editor of the Edinburgh University Press New Critical Editions, who recently won a Doylean honour from the ACD Society for his introduction to Conan Doyle’s autobiography, Memories and Adventures (1924).
You can find out more about the Edinburgh Critical Editions here: https://edinburgh-conan-doyle.org/
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Image credits: Thanks to Alexis Barquin at The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopaedia for permission to reproduce these images. Please support the encyclopaedia at www.arthur-conan-doyle.com.
Music credit: Sneaky Snitch Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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