![]() Micah Clarkeĭoyle’s first historical novel, Micah Clarke, is set in seventeenth century England against the background of Monmouth’s Rebellion. Micah Clarke, Alleyne Edricson, and Sir Nigel Loring all engage in real battles Sherlock Holmes combats villains on behalf of distressed young women and naïve and frightened young men Professor Challenger takes on the unknown: a prehistoric world, the realm of the spirit, the threatened extinction of life on Earth. Doyle’s central character is always the knight on a quest, living and battling according to chivalric ideals. ![]() Arthur Conan Doyle’s ( – 7 July 1930) epitaph “STEEL TRUE/BLADE STRAIGHT” can also serve as an introduction to the themes of his novels, both those that feature actual medieval settings and those that center on Sherlock Holmes. ![]()
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