# Conan Doyle Fans: What's your favorite NON Sherlock story? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 22, 2014, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conan-doyle-fans-whats-your-favorite-non-sherlock-story/679462 "2014-01-22T18:48:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conan-doyle-fans-whats-your-favorite-non-sherlock-story/679462/21 "2014-01-23T20:08:21Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I like the “Captain Sharkey” series. In fact, I’ve got a copy of “The Dealings Of Captain Sharkey And Other Tales Of Pirates” sitting on my desk right now. Alas, it is the 1919 edition, not the 1905 first edition. Those are great. What I love about them is that Sharkey is a complete and utter bastard - no romantic “pirate with a heart of gold” he. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conan-doyle-fans-whats-your-favorite-non-sherlock-story/679462/22 "2014-01-23T20:10:02Z")
For some odd reason I’ve always liked [When the World Screamed](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_World_Screamed) a late Prof. Challenger story. Though I also like The Lost World. ---
**Author:** ![vontsira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/51bf81/32.png) [@vontsira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vontsira)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conan-doyle-fans-whats-your-favorite-non-sherlock-story/679462/23 "2014-01-23T21:02:35Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > That would, indeed, be awesome. 😃 > > Corwall himself includes a crossover character from “Death to the French”: > > [Death to the French - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_to_the_French) Rifleman Dodd, to wit ! I remember him featuring “ephemerally” also in an earlier “Sharpe”, than that in which he plays a big part. IIRC, it’s on the retreat to Corunna – the squad’s sergeant has just been killed, and Sharpe is mentally doing “eeny-meeny-miney-mo” as regards which of the survivors might replace him. He thinks, “Tongue? – he’s educated and intelligent, but a hopeless alcoholic, and too much of a sympathiser with Napoleon and the French. Gataker? – no, he’s a delinquent street kid, wouldn’t get what being a sergeant is about. Dodd? – no, he’s too thick. Hey, what about Patrick Harper?” > [@Malthus](#): > > I haven’t read _The Refugees_, but I do love both _The White Company_ and _Sir Nigel_, and both have been very influential on other writers of historical fiction, down to the present day. > > I recently attended a lecture given by Christian Cameron, who wrote this book: > > [The Ill-Made Knight : Cameron, Christian: Amazon.ca: Books](http://www.amazon.ca/The-Ill-Made-Knight-Christian-Cameron/dp/1409142418) > > Which I read and liked very much. I asked him about whether he was influenced by _The White Company_, and he said, very much so; in fact, some of the characters were deliberate references! It rather seems that everyone likes _TWC_ and _SN_, except me – perhaps I’m “Johnny-out-of-step”, and should try the books again, setting previous prejudice aside. Cameron’s book sounds interesting. “The Ill-Made Knight” is, I believe, an old meme – I think it comes up in T.H. White’s _The Once And Future King_ , in reference to Sir Lancelot – “ill-made” as in coming up from poverty, lacking the wherewithal to afford the upper crust’s knightly gear. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conan-doyle-fans-whats-your-favorite-non-sherlock-story/679462/24 "2014-01-23T21:12:13Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#): > > Brendan Frasier as Malone, of course; he can play athletic and smart. ? You mean 45-year-old [Brendan Fraser](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000409/)? Not that he’s not athletic and smart, but I just can’t see him as the 23-year-old cub reporter Ned Malone in _The Lost World_. ---
**Author:** ![FeAudrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7feea3/32.png) [@FeAudrey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FeAudrey)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conan-doyle-fans-whats-your-favorite-non-sherlock-story/679462/25 "2014-01-23T21:48:08Z")
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