Review: Hiding the Elephant by Jim Steinmeyer

This book chronicles the golden age of magic from the mid 19th century through to the mid 20th. Its connection is a Doylean one in so far as the book devotes a fair number of pages to Harry Houdini who, as we know, was a friend and enemy of Conan Doyle.

Spiritualist Church in Danger

I've recently been contacted by a Wendy Stokes who is campaigning to save a Spiritualist Temple in Camden with Conan Doyle links.

Wow it's been a month

I do apologise for the lack of recent blog posts. Truth be told, I simply haven't been getting up to much on the Sherlockian front.

New Book on Spiritualism available

Firstly I must stress that this is not a review or a recommendation. This is for the simple reason that I have neither seen nor read the book concerned.

William Hope - Photograpaher of Spirits

My most recent book No Better Place spent a good deal of time covering the subject of Spiritualism and Spirit Photographs.

No Better Place - Out Today

My latest book - No Better Place - is officially out worldwide today.

On the shelf (literally)

The first copy of No Better Place arrived yesterday.

No Better Place - not long to wait

I don't really know what percentage of my blog's readership are really interested in Arthur Conan Doyle but....

Editor feedback

The editor comments are in...

Houdini - Mini series - Part 2 Review

Here I move on to review part two of the Houdini series starring Adrien Brody. I must warn of spoilers.

A request for advice

I tried asking this on Twitter and did not get a single response. So I'm putting it here. This is a serious question that will have an impact on my next book.

Book progress update

I thought, for those who are interested, that it was time for a book update.

Colour me surprised

As regular readers will know, I am presently working on a biography of Conan Doyle's Windlesham years. The reason I waited almost three years after the publication of my last book came down to one word.

1916 is getting closer

Well it's time for a little book update.

Book progress

Well I feel it is time for a little update on my progress with my biography of Conan Doyle's Windlesham years.

Book update June 6 2014

It is almost exactly two months since I wrote the first words of my biography of Conan Doyle's years in Crowborough (1907-1930).

Spiritualism reading - A History of Ghosts

As part of my research for my latest book I have been delving into the world of Spiritualism.