After the tragic events of May 1891, it was a couple of years before Watson could publish the account in The Final Problem. He found…
To him "whom I shall ever regard as the best and wisest man whom I have ever known."
After the tragic events of May 1891, it was a couple of years before Watson could publish the account in The Final Problem. He found…
The Ocular Helmsman was a website titled “A Vede Mecum Upon the Personal Effects & Environs of Sherlock Holmes & John H. Watson of 221B…
Setting aside for the moment the question of whether Holmes went to Oxford, or Cambridge, or both, the Oxford Sherlock Holmes has been my favourite…
In the final collection of stories called The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is The Problem of Thor Bridge. At the start of Watson’s recounting of…
Following the success of their book, Mrs Hudson’s Diaries: A View from the Landing at 221B: Behind the Apron with Sherlock Holmes’ Land Lady, the…
The publication of the 1921 Census in 2022 prompted me to published my reading of the 1901 Census in relation to Arthur Conan Doyle. The…
For some people, Jeremy Brett, will always be the Sherlock Holmes. He portrayed Holmes over 40 times in what the creator of the Granada Series, Michael…
Not very likely! However the then newly-published Playboy magazine had in its first issue of December 1953, an Introduction to Sherlock Holmes with the opening…
Early experiments From the earliest days, the BBC was experimenting with stereophonic sound. But in the late 1950s, these experiments became a full-scale programme of…
The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition that took place in the summer of 1951. In the planning for the Festival there was a…