Today, November 21, is the 130th anniversary of the very first public appearance of the quippy detective known as Sherlock Holmes. Normally, an anniversary of this stature would have a definitive, ...

Today begins a week of double themed blog-posts. First I am back with an homage to Sherlock Holmes, for it was in the magazine Beeton’s Christmas Annual that the characters Sherlock Holmes and Watson ...

Calling any detective character a Sherlock Holmes replacement would be unfair, but Jack Reacher comes close to being his perfect modern-day version in more ways than one. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's ...

In 1903, in the town of Great Wyrley, England, 27-year-old George Edalji was charged with severe animal mutilation. Up until then, Edalji was an upstanding citizen — the son of a vicar and a ...

In A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes’s best quip wasn’t “the game’s afoot!” but instead, something a little more intelligent. “What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence,” Holmes tells ...

Sherlock Holmes isn’t real, but when was his birthday? In A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes’s best quip wasn’t “the game’s afoot!” but instead, something a little more intelligent. “What you do in ...

Sherlock Holmes was created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887, and remains the most famous detective in literary history. Debuting in A Study in Scarlet, Holmes captivated readers with his remarkable ...