Meaning of Conan-Doylish | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [C1]

Examples

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

“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⟳.”

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

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

“[…] 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.”

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