“He had a curious precision of statement, a delicate flavour of humour, and a trick of small gestures to illustrate his meaning.” For both writers, the evening would prove a turning point. “His conversation left an indelible impression upon my mind,” Conan Doyle remembered.
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But he was captivated by one of the other invited guests, an Irish playwright and author named Oscar Wilde. At the suggestion of a friend, he had invited Conan Doyle to join him for dinner in the Langham’s opulent dining room.Īmid the bustle of waiters, the chink of fine silver and the hum of dozens of conversations, Conan Doyle found Stoddart to be “an excellent fellow,” he would write years later. Now Joseph Marshall Stoddart, managing editor of Lippincott’s Monthly, a Philadelphia magazine, was in London to establish a British edition of his publication. The magazine Beeton’s Christmas Annual had recently published his novel, A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the private detective Sherlock Holmes.
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Then living in obscurity in the coastal town of Southsea, near Portsmouth, the 30-year-old ophthalmologist was looking to advance his writing career. One summer evening in 1889, a young medical school graduate named Arthur Conan Doyle arrived by train at London’s Victoria Station and took a hansom cab two and a half miles north to the famed Langham Hotel on Upper Regent Street. ‘Gods of War’ is due to be released on 27 June by Titan Books priced at £7.99 and is currently available for pre-order on .The city, in all its brooding grandeur, takes center stage in stories featuring the master of deduction. As well as East Dean village and its historic 15 th Century smugglers pub The Tiger Inn, the book races through stunning South Downs countryside including Beachy Head, Alfriston, the Cuckmere Valley and the mysterious chalk figure of the Long Man of Wilmington. The book also features many venues around Eastbourne including the Pier, Meads, Terminus Road, Grand Hotel and the Railway Station.
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Sarah Leighton from the Beachy Head Estate says “The village of East Dean is proud of its association with the great Sherlock Holmes and it’s exciting to think of Beachy Head and the surrounding countryside providing a backdrop to another of the famous detective’s adventures.” A blue plaque on the village green marks his literary association with the village there today. Sherlock Holmes has a long association with East Dean, as being the retirement home of the fictional detective, also an avid beekeeper. “In Gods Of War I have tried to make Edwardian Eastbourne and its surroundings as essential to the mood and atmosphere of the narrative as Victorian London is to the Holmes stories we all know so well, not least by including local folk and folklore in the novel.” There have been other pastiche Holmes novels set during the great detective’s twilight years - Michael Chabon’s superb The Final Solution springs to mind - but none of the authors seem as familiar with the area as I am.”
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It always had a special appeal for me that Conan Doyle had Sherlock Holmes retire to a patch of countryside and coastline that I know so well. The discovery of a body nearby leads the duo to uncover a sinister conspiracy of shocking ramifications.Īuthor James Lovegrove says “I am East Sussex born and bred and I have lived here for most of my life. Set in 1913, with the threat of World War One hanging over England, the story begins with Dr Watson visiting his friend Holmes at his cottage in East Dean. Written by the New York Times bestselling author James Lovegrove, his second Sherlock Holmes novel ‘Gods of War’ is released on 27 June, after his highly acclaimed first instalment was released to rave reviews last year. Beachy Head, East Dean, and the surrounding area are the setting for a new book about the adventures of fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.