Epitaph

During the latter half of January I read Arthur & George, the 2005 novel by Julian Barnes that has Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as one of its two main protagonists. In it I discovered that Conan Doyle's epitaph is "Steel True, Blade Straight".

This information proved useful a week or so later, when the Spring 2013 issue of the Campaign for Real Ale's quarterly magazine Beer arrived - question 5 in this issue's 'get QUIZZIC-ALE' general knowledge competition was:

Whose epitaph was "Steel True, Blade Straight"?

Then yesterday my good friend Lance Dann shared a link on Facebook to thisisnthappiness.com - scrolling through some of the recent posts, I stopped when I came to this:

http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/41792095521/doyle-fitzgerald-and-shakespeare-chip-kidd