New research suggests Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, writer of the Sherlock Holmes stories, may also have anticipated major medical ...

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 ...

William Roughead wasn’t the kind of writer who liked to indulge in outrage. The Glasgow lawyer, who began attending murder trials in 1889 at the age of 19—for curiosity’s sake until it became his ...

Peaky Blinders turned early 20th century Britain into a slick world of crime, and now Guy Ritchie has done the same thing to ...

Doyle’s response was Great Britain and the Next War. But, Doyle being Doyle, he didn’t just hurl bombast. He laid out careful ...

‘The Hope among loose ice, March 16th, 1880. Image: Conan Doyle Estate Ltd Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his novels about a certain Mr. Holmes, who keeps popping up in movies and TV shows.

In Conan Doyle for the Defense, Margalit Fox brings to life a forgotten cause célèbre in this page-turning account of how mystery-writer-turned-real life sleuth Arthur Conan Doyle helped exonerate a ...

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 ...

So who doesn’t love a good crime novel? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—Montblanc’s focus for this year’s Writers Edition—was a pioneer in the genre, perhaps best known for his creation of the well-loved ...

Mention Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes pops to mind, which is not the way Conan Doyle wished to be known. Nor does he need to be, for Conan Doyle threw himself into life with a vengeance, and ...

7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner rejects the distinction between "complex" and "flat" characters if it means "nearly perpetual copyright." By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large On appeal, the ...