Are there any scholarly Conan Doyle biographies?
Several of his biographies have been well-researched, but they do not rigorously identify the source and location of all their information. Most include bibliographies and few if any footnotes. One exception is the 1964 original French version of Pierre Nordon’s work on Conan Doyle, but this is more of a literary study than a conventional biography. Its English translation is abridged and does not include many of the footnotes. Although not a complete biography, Richard Lancelyn Green’s The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes contains a heavily-footnoted 146-page essay on Conan Doyle’s life.
