On Sept. 7, 1919, the 60-year-old Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, doctor, lecturer, seafarer, sportsman, indefatigable social campaigner—and globally renowned author of the Sherlock Holmes tales—shared the ...

Walking through Edinburgh’s West End, early one winter morning, I spied a familiar face. The unmistakable features of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle looked down upon me from an impressive Victorian town house ...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1923 U.S. tour was devoted entirely to promoting spiritualism and communication with the dead. Cincinnatians sold out the Emery Theatre to hear the famous author. “Yes, it was ...

It is somewhat paradoxical that Sherlock Holmes was a literary creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, says D. Alan Bensley, an associate professor of psychology at Frostburg State University, in an essay ...

Henry Steel Olcott’s 1875 book, “People from the Other World,” provided readers with numerous illustrations of the Eddy family’s homestead and scenes from their seances. Among the images were drawings ...