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 ...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 125 years ago to this week, dismissed Dr WG Grace. Most of us do not write a poem about the favourite wicket we have taken, but the inventor of Sherlock Holmes can be forgiven ...

A scion of wealth claimed self-defense and invoked a sinister blackmailing ring. But, James Polchin asks, what did they have on him? By Marisa Meltzer In “The Life of Crime,” Martin Edwards takes on ...

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 ...

Since 1851, more than 200,000 people have been the subjects of obituaries in The New York Times. This summer we revisited many of these memorable lives. Send us your feedback. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s ...

What’s the last book you read? “Masters of Mystery: The Strange Friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini, by Christopher Sandford. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is my favorite author of all time. I ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The estate for Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is suing Netflix and several other parties involved in the upcoming ...

Sunday marks the birth of the man who created the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes. On such a grand occasion, I cannot resist reprising one of my favorite medical detective stories. It ...

Arthur Conan Doyle is the author of the iconic Sherlock Holmes stories, which have become a cultural fixture in literature. They first appeared in print in 1887 with Conan Doyle's novel A Study in ...

So who doesn’t love a good crime novel? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—Montblanc’s focus for this year’s Writers Edition—was a pioneer in the genre, perhaps best known for his creation of the well-loved ...