First, the story was headlined “Sherlock Holmes,” in quotes -- something that would have indicated a fiction. Second, there is no mention of Arthur Conan Doyle in the table of contents, or by ...

This fall features many new works on Arthur Conan Doyle and his most famous creation, including a lost novel by the author himself. 1Washington Post book critic Michael Dirda began a lifelong ...

arts entertainment Books. How Sherlock, and his inventor, came to be "Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes," by Michael Sims, has all the details.

Honestly, this explains so much about Benedict Cumberbatch’s version of Holmes in BBC’s Sherlock. The Doyle estate has sued over Holmes before—like when they lodged a complaint against ...

Conan Doyle, unable to finish off his Nemesis, and forced perpetually to pay homage to Holmes, Conan Doyle went “off with the fairies.” In 1917, two English girls declared they had photographs ...

Sherlock Holmes originally appeared in a series of stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, debuting in 1887's A Study in Scarlet. However, those original stories and novels say very little about any family ...

It could seem far-fetched to imagine some of Britain's most celebrated authors lined up in a slip cordon, but it was entirely ...

Sherlock Holmes on screen 37 photos. Research has revealed that “Sherlock” star Benedict Cumberbatch shares an ancestor with the Sherlock Holmes’ creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, making him ...

Arthur Conan Doyle was a physician who used his knowledge of medicine and reasoning to craft some of the greatest detective stories, featuring two of the greatest characters in fiction, Sherlock ...