On June 26, Sotheby’s New York will be presenting “The Library of Dr. Rodney P. Swantko,” an auction that will include many rare first editions including the only handwritten draft of Sir Arthur Conan ...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the iconic Sherlock Holmes, was a true polymath. From his medical background and ...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 125 years ago to this week, dismissed Dr WG Grace. Most of us do not write a poem about the favourite wicket we have taken, but the inventor of Sherlock Holmes can be forgiven ...

For Lucy Worsley, a lifelong fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s perpetually perceptive detective Sherlock Holmes, the question that propels her new 3-part PBS series “Lucy Worsley’s Holmes vs. Doyle” was ...

Lucy Worsley isn’t afraid to get her hands dirty. In fact, when it comes to the research for her series, she’s all hands on deck. The British historian takes on a subject that is dear to her — ...

A scion of wealth claimed self-defense and invoked a sinister blackmailing ring. But, James Polchin asks, what did they have on him? By Marisa Meltzer In “The Life of Crime,” Martin Edwards takes on ...

Lucy Worsley visits the Reichenbach Falls, the site of fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes' death. How do you kill the world's most famous detective? Lucy Worsley visits the Reichenbach Falls in ...

Why did Arthur Conan Doyle hate his fictional character, Sherlock Holmes? Sherlock Holmes is the most well-known detective in the world. He made his author, Arthur Conan Doyle, rich and famous. But ...

What did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Jules Stein have in common? They were both trained as ophthalmologists. Most ophthalmologists focus on the management of eye diseases and performance of eye ...

One summer evening in 1889, Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde sat down for dinner at the Langham Hotel in London with J.M Stoddart, the American businessman and editor of Lippincott’s Monthly ...