What's
New
Keep an eye on this page. We'll post information on upgrades to
the site here.
March 30, 2008 - Learn about
Professor James Moriarty.
January 20, 2008 - Learn about
Doctor Conan Doyle and George
Budd.
January 5, 2008 - We've added new
Valentine's Day cards.
December 30, 2007 - Send one of our
New Year's Day cards to
friends and family.
December 21, 2007 - Happy holidays! We've added
two new designs to our Christmas card
collection.
November 20, 2007 - We've added two new designs to our
Thanksgiving cards.
October 16, 2007 - We've added two new designs to our
Halloween card collection.
June 14, 2007 - We couldn't forget Dad! We now have
Father's Day Cards.
May 9, 2007 - Visit our new
Mother's Day card page.
March 31, 2007 - We've added
Easter Cards.
March 29, 2007 - Learn about
Conan Doyle's decision to become
a doctor and his life in medical school.
February 15, 2007 - We've updated the
birthday card page.
February 1, 2007 - We've updated our
Valentine's Day cards.
August 2006 - The website gets a facelift with a new design.
July 2006 -
We've updated our website database.
This has allowed us to add new features to the site!
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Email Quotes - As you look through
our quote collection
you'll see a yellow envelope to the right of the quote.
Click on the envelope to email quotes to family and
friends.
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Greeting Cards -
Our greeting cards are still free to use and easy to send
but now they come with added features.
05/29/06 - Play our new Sherlock
Holmes picture scramble. Watch out! It's wickedly
addictive.
03/06/06 - Wondering how to cite our site in an essay?
Wonder no more. We've made a
citation page to help you.
01/30/06 - Now the Quotes by Title
feature is even easier to use. Just click on the title and view
the quotes.
10/16/05 - Visit our search for quotes
page.
8/26/05 - We've added a site map.
07/29/05 - We added four new quote
topics.
06/25/05 - The daily Conan Doyle
quote has moved to a new page.
06/01/05 -
Learn about the friendship between
Conan Doyle and James M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan.
02/01/05 - Conan Doyle the
Sportsman - Learn about
Conan Doyle's lifelong passion for
sports including golf, cricket and even boxing!
12/1/04 - The site has a whole new look!
10/01/04 - We've added two new games:
08/01/04 - Learn about one of the
most famous addresses in all of literature,
221B Baker Street!
06/01/04 - As a child Conan Doyle's mother told
him stories of chivalrous knights and glorious deeds. These tales
helped the Doyle family to survive hard times. They may have also have
been part of the inspiration for
The White
Company.
04/01/04 - We've added
new quotes!
02/01/04 -
It seems odd to think of a time when people didn't ski in
Switzerland. However, when Conan Doyle arrived in Switzerland
in 1893 that was exactly the situation. Learn how the man
who invented Sherlock Holmes also helped to popularize skiing in
Switzerland. Learn More
11/01/03 -
When William Gordon was released from Peterhead Prison
he smuggled out a message from
fellow prisoner, Oscar Slater. The message, written on waterproof
paper and hidden under Gordon's tongue, was a plea for help. It
was to be delivered to none other than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Learn More
09/01/03 -
It was a moment straight out of a Sherlock Holmes
novel. In January of 1907 Conan Doyle walked into the lobby of a hotel.
He was late for an appointment with a man who was trying
to clear his name. As Conan Doyle entered the lobby he spotted George Edalji. In a flash Conan Doyle knew that
Edalji was innocent. Learn More
07/01/03 - Did you know that Conan
Doyle wasn't knighted for his work on Sherlock Holmes? He was
knighted to service to his country for his work on a nonfiction
"pamphlet" regarding the Boer War.
Learn
More
Be sure to visit our updated
Events Page.
06/01/03 - Do you have a web
site? If so check out our new
Webmaster
Resources. There are banners that you can use to link to us
and you can even have the daily Conan Doyle quote on your site!
05/01/03 - What inspired Conan
Doyle to write about Sherlock Holmes again after the incident at Reichenbach
Falls? It took a story of a ghostly hound to inspire Conan Doyle
to bring the great
detective back. Learn More
03/01/03 - After the Titanic sank in
1912 Conan Doyle and George Bernard Shaw had a very public
disagreement about the disaster.
Learn
More
01/01/03 -
Did
you know that the characters of Lord John Roxton and Edward Malone from
The
Lost World were based on two men that were later charged
with treason?
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