Star Trek’s Spock has always been a master of analytical reasoning, and now we know why. He’s a direct descendant of Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. That revelation was dropped this ...

In the spring of 1923, the world that called itself “modern” was haunted by ghosts, curses and rising extremism. This episode follows Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s surprising turn to spiritualism after the ...

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 ...

Arthur Conan Doyle’s second Sherlock Holmes novel, The Sign of the Four, was first published in Lippincott’s Monthly magazine in 1890. Now, the author’s handwritten manuscript of the book—the only ...

Arthur Conan Doyle was not just one of the world’s best crime fiction writers. He was a progressive wordsmith who brought ...

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 ...

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 ...