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Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.

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Arthur Conan Doyle
Age: 71 †
Born: 1859
Born: May 22
Died: 1930
Died: July 7
Crime Writer
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Novelist
Physician
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Edinburgh
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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
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Sir A. Conan Doyle
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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