Even the most devoted Baker Street Irregular or Baker Street Babe must have trouble keeping up with the frenetic celebration of Sherlock Holmes and his creator Arthur Conan Doyle—the movies and TV ...

On Sept. 7, 1919, the 60-year-old Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, doctor, lecturer, seafarer, sportsman, indefatigable social campaigner—and globally renowned author of the Sherlock Holmes tales—shared the ...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1923 U.S. tour was devoted entirely to promoting spiritualism and communication with the dead. Cincinnatians sold out the Emery Theatre to hear the famous author. “Yes, it was ...

Walking through Edinburgh’s West End, early one winter morning, I spied a familiar face. The unmistakable features of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle looked down upon me from an impressive Victorian town house ...

Today, nearly seventy years after his death, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is universally associated with his most popular literary creation, Sherlock Holmes. In fact, the hyper-rational detective is such an ...

It is somewhat paradoxical that Sherlock Holmes was a literary creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, says D. Alan Bensley, an associate professor of psychology at Frostburg State University, in an essay ...

Edith Meiser, the woman behind the Sherlock Holmes radio program responsible for reviving American interest in the sleuth, is ...