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On this day in 1930, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died, at the age of seventy-one. Although Conan Doyle continued to write Sherlock Holmes stories throughout his last decade, many agreed with T. S. Eliot that the unstumpable hero showed evidence of "mental decay." Because Conan Doyle had devoted that decade and more not to fiction but to his obsession with spiritualism -- seances, ectoplasmic quiverings, automatic writing, etc. -- many had also begun to wonder about him. By book, pamphlet, letter-to-the-editor or lecture, across England, America, Africa and Europe, Conan Doyle had promoted his spiritualist views with missionary zeal ... FULL STORY »
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