The Doyle Diary: The Last Great Conan Doyle Mystery, with a Holmesian Investigation into the Strange and Curious Case of Charles Altamont Doyle

New York: Paddington Press Ltd, 1978. Large Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 10x6x1. Edge wear to jacket, half-inch tear on rear jacket panel. Pages foxed. 1978 Large Hardcover. xxix, 91 pp. The creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle's father, Charles Altamont Doyle was incarcerated in a Victorian asylum due to his alcoholism. His random jottings and exquisite illustrations in an attempt to prove his sanity, later became this fascinating journal.