The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written., 8 September 1935)

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Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer of detective fiction, best known for the character Sherlock Holmes. As a prolific writer of short stories, his stories were published in a variety of periodicals during his lifetime before being collected into books.

Source: The Letters Of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 18991936: The Making Of A Detective Novelist

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