Doyle
Common Celtic surname
Doyle is a surname of Irish origin.
It appears most famously in Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, making a Doyle mystery sometimes shorthand for detective fiction.
The name remains common in Ireland and among Irish diaspora communities.
Fictional London investigator
- WatsonCommon English surname
- detectiveProfessional crime investigator
- Baker StreetLondon road, detective's address
- deductionConclusion from premises
Moriarty · Baskerville · hounds · Scotland Yard · elementary · sleuth · casebook · magnifying glass
Classic male name
- ConanIrish or barbarian name
- novelistWriter of prose narratives
- storytellerOne who recounts tales
- VictorianOf a prim era
fiction · adventure · historical · spiritualist · serialized · publishing · knighthood · Edinburgh
Holmes
Fictional London investigator
- WatsonCommon English surname
- detectiveProfessional crime investigator
- Baker StreetLondon road, detective's address
Moriarty · deduction · Baskerville · hounds · Scotland Yard · elementary · sleuth · casebook · magnifying glass · pipe
Arthur
Classic male name
- ConanIrish or barbarian name
- novelistWriter of prose narratives
- storytellerOne who recounts tales
Victorian · fiction · adventure · historical · spiritualist · serialized · publishing · knighthood · Edinburgh · physician
Irish
Of the Emerald Isle
family · lineage · ancestry · Celtic · Gaelic · patronymic · kinship · bloodline · descendants · forebears
- British WritersShakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Tolkien, Rowling
- golden age authorsDickens, Twain, Poe, Austen, Tolstoy
- AuthorsShakespeare, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- English LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Jane Austen, Bronte, Chaucer
- Irish SurnamesO'Brien, Murphy, Kelly, O'Neill, O'Connor
- Auction HousesChristie's, Sotheby's, Phillips, Skinner