Arthur Conan Doyle News

If you're an avid reader, you're going to love the 2009 holiday movie season. Among the fictional creations that are coming to the big screen in the next couple of months are Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective-beyond-peer Sherlock Holmes , as well as those that are featured in the books "Push" "The Lovely Bones" , "The Road" "Fantastic Mr.

It's hard to believe that it's been nearly a year since the last Baker Street Irregulars Weekend.

Have you ever failed to return a library book? "Yes, I did and I was heavily fined for it.

Historian Garrie Hutchinson in front of the Charles Moore Boer War memorial in Albert Park.

When it comes to fiction, paranormality is the new normal. The bestseller lists are crowded with vampires, werewolves, and ghouls of every description.

Tantor Audio will release four unabridged audiobooks taken from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's four Sherlock Holmes novels later this month.

Forget the deerstalker hat, the tweed houndstooth Inverness overcoat and the oversized spyglass.

Woolworths in Southsea could be sold to Portsmouth City Council and turned into a library, The News can reveal.

Chaired by Francisca Goldsmith, Halifax Public Libraries, Nova Scotia -- School Library Journal, 11/1/2009 Fiction ADAMS, John Joseph , ed.

AND speaking of spiders, if you thought you didn't like them before, you will probably like them less now.

Who is the greatest detective in the world? The answer is elementary: Sherlock Holmes, the genius, cocaine-addicted sleuth created by the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Sherlock Holmes fans antsy with anticipation for the forthcoming extravaganza starring Robert Downey Jr.

Hey folks, Harry here with the latest poster for SHERLOCK HOLMES, that Guy Ritchie - reimagining - of Arthur Conan Doyle's greatest character.

An historic mansion provides the perfect setting for the final adventure of a world renowned sleuth and his less brilliant sidekick when Kirk Players presents "Sherlock's Last Case" at the Cuneo Museum in Vernon Hills, Oct.

Conan Doyle, the second of Charles Altamont and Mary Foley Doyle's 10 children, began seven years of Jesuit education in Lancashire, England, in 1868.

Dartmoor is steeped in history: a local legend formed the basis of the setting for "The Hound of the Baskervilles," one of the Sherlock Holmes novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle enlists the aid of American journalist Rebecca Eastman in Eric Simonson's "Fake," in its world premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre.

In recent news Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, noted author and creator of Sherlock Holmes - and a Scot, no less! - has been given the honor of his own stamp.

THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES by Steven Canny and John Nicholson, from the story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving is my favorite story for reading in October.