fragments and portraits generated with AI come from the book “100 Masons Who Changed the World“
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Arthur Conan Doyle, Tragedy in Boscombe Valley
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) created 1 of the most celebrated and influential figures in the past of the detective novel. Sherlock Holmes, a prominent detective, was the hero of many novels and short stories by Conan Doyle, and his popularity contributed to the improvement of the genre of the detective fresh and inspired many another literary works and films. The concept of Holmes as an intellectual superman, who solves puzzles through logic and deduction, showed that reasoning brought to the highest registers of consequences and logic — specified as Sherlock Holmes was celebrated for — is highly admirable. Interestingly, at the same time (paradoxically?) Conan Doyle was an enthusiast of spiritism. This passion led to a break of relationship between him and Harry Houdini, who was active in exposing spiritists. They became public enemies due to the fact that Conan Doyle claimed that Houdini himself is simply a powerful spiritistic medium, resulting in his spectacular “magic” successes, and the expository activity is just a kind of smokescreen and at the same time a way to get free of competition.
