As anyone worth their salt knows, May 22nd was Conan Doyle's birthday. Once again there was a clutch of posts on social media clamouring for it to be seen as Annual Sherlock Holmes Day. I cannot fathom why people seek to belittle Holmes's creator - whether or not they see it that way.
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Beeton's Christmas Annual facsimile from Life is Amazing
The Beeton's Christmas Annual of 1887 is something of a Holy Grail in Sherlockian and Doylean circles. It represents the first appearance in print of our favourite detective.
ACD Estate - Character material
In an earlier blog post I talked about a contribution I had made to the website of the Conan Doyle Estate...
What is your best source of Sherlockian / Doylean reference material?
As my more regular readers will know, I have written some books and articles in addition to this blog. To be able to do so with any reliability and accuracy I needed good sources of reference material.
Some local news.
Arthur Conan Doyle lived in the Surrey town of Haslemere for six months before moving to nearby Hindhead. Haslemere doesn't make much of the connection regrettably but this changed, in a small way, around three years ago.
Revisiting the past
Due to the lack of Sherlockian activity (or activity interesting to me) I have been struggling with topics to write about.
Holmes and Watson: Thoughts
Everyone else appears to have made a statement on this film so I am going to join them and no I haven't seen it.
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