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Spiritualism
Detecting the dead
Following personal tragedy, the creator of that most rational of literary figures, Sherlock Holmes, developed an obsession with spiritualism. Fiona Snailham and Anna Maria Barry explore the supernatural interests of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, photographed by the medium Ada Deane with someone described as a “spirit” in 1922. By then, the author was the foremost public advocate of talking to people on the “other side”
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