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Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle

9 best books like Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle (Daniel Stashower): Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall, A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1), Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters, From Holmes to Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Women Who Created an Icon, The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Duke of Deception, Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide, America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
AuthorOlga Tokarczuk
ISBN0525541330
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her...
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
AuthorNina Willner
ISBN0062410334
In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family—of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall...
A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1)
AuthorRonald Holt
ISBN0582416396
“To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.”

So begins the very first story in the very first collection of stories about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective with a phenomenal brain, Sherlock Holmes. A Scandal in Bohemia...
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters
AuthorJon Lellenberg
ISBN1594201358
More than seventy-five years after his death, the famed creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, remains one of the world's best-loved authors. This candid, never-before-published volume of letters sheds light on Conan Doyle's fascinating career, not only as an author but as a physician,...
From Holmes to Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Women Who Created an Icon
AuthorMattias Boström
Everyone knows Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a unique literary character who has remained popular for over a century and is appreciated more than ever today. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small-town English doctor in the 1880s, into such a lasting success,...
The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes
AuthorZach Dundas
ISBN0544214048
A wickedly smart and rollicking journey through the birth, life, and afterlives of popular culture's most beloved sleuth

Today he is the inspiration for fiction adaptations, blockbuster movies, hit television shows, raucous Twitter banter, and thriving subcultures. More than a century...
The Duke of Deception
AuthorGeoffrey Wolff
ISBN0679727523
Duke Wolff was a flawless specimen of the American clubman—a product of Yale and the OSS, a one-time fighter pilot turned aviation engineer. Duke Wolff was a failure who flunked out of a series of undistinguished schools, was passed up for military service, and supported himself with desperately...
Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
AuthorTony Horwitz
ISBN1101980303
The New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz.

With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape...
America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
AuthorGraham Hancock
Listening Length: 17 hours and 16 minutes

The concluding volume of the Fingerprints of the Gods trilogy.

Could shattering secrets about the deep past of humanity await discovery in North America?

Until very recently there was almost universal agreement amongst scientists...
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