Nonfiction · 1919
The Vital Message
Doyle lost his son, his brother, and several other close relatives in the First World War, and The Vital Message is his attempt to explain, plainly and as a matter of demonstrated fact rather than comforting belief, why he had become convinced that communication with the dead was real and that this mattered more than almost anything else being discussed at the time.
Doyle published The Vital Message in 1919, a follow-up to his earlier The New Revelation, deep into the public advocacy for spiritualism that occupied much of his later life.
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1859–1930 · Victorian
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was born in Edinburgh and trained as a physician there before practising in Southsea, where he wrote A Study in Scarlet (1887), the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes. The Holmes stories in the Strand Magazine from 1891 made him famous; he killed the detective in 1893 and revived him in 1901–03. He also wrote historical novels, the Professor Challenger stories (The Lost World, 1912), military histories, and, in his later years, extensively on spiritualism. He was knighted in 1902.
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