In his book Mysteries and Conspiracies, the French sociologist Luc Boltanski has laid out the close connection between the rise of the crime novel and modernity's broken social order. The more fragile the social fabric, the more the modern world is unfathomable, the more attractive it is to have a detective who can restore order and help his readers to believe in the reality of reality. The detective is therefore closely related to the paranoid, who also came into being in the nineteenth century. Both transform fragmented traces into an orderly interpretation, both formulate scattered signs into a homogeneous cosmos. Conan Doyle's multifaceted work, which we have covered while rambling through its outlandish heterogeneity, fits seamlessly into this reading and expands it through further facets. Conan Doyle's publications, from those on amateur photography, to the Sherlock Holmes and Professor Challenger stories and his political essays and those on spiritualism, chronicle the upheaval of the modern and depict the attempt to deflect it through the use of fiction, photography and many other means. Conan Doyle's project does not involve new concepts and new constructions, as with the avant-garde, but instead consolidation, preservation and salvation. Despite all of the originality of his characters and the remarkable nature of his narrative settings, he is a deeply conservative writer, who with ever new narrative inventions seeks to restore an old, lost world. His strategic realism, which in turn generates parallel worlds, as well as opening passages between them, is a device for placing a second order next to the broken order of reality, with the new one promising stability. Between fiction and reality one can shuttle back and forth without problem, since they are congenial with one another anyways. And the same goes for the hereafter and the here-and-now, Great Britain and the colonial world, and also the past and the present. Moral orders therefore remain unaffected. This is also a part of the narrative project which sets itself the task to connect together the broken shards of reality in order to create a second reality that mirrors the first. Conan Doyle titled a book in his library about literary discoveries Through the Magic Door. But for him it is not about passing through a magic mirror into another world but much more about finding a way into the mirror, into the communicating orders manifested through clues, indices, discoveries, photographs and stories.