"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data
"(Conan Doyle, Scandal in Bohemia)"
-quoted in Colin Dexter, Death Is Now My Neighbour (London, 1996), Chapter Twenty, p. 126.
Other reading - Dexter quotes Conan Doyle and we think that Poul Anderson did also so we search the blog and find:
Quiz question: which fictional detectives die in their last novel?
This is the fourth and probably the last post on this blog for today but please see also:
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteI think Agatha Christie had Hercule Poirot dying in the last novel she wrote about him. Don't recall any others.
A. Conan Doyle was forced to "resurrect" Sherlock Holmes due to pleas from the fans.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
ReplyDeletePoirot and Inspector Morse.
Paul.