The name Sherlock Holmes is all but synonymous with logic. Sherlock isn't gullible. Through every iteration of the Holmes mysteries, every reboot and retelling and fanfiction story, the world's most ...

Since his death in 1930, at least a dozen authors have offered up biographies of Arthur Conan Doyle, one of them with almost the same title as this one. Russell Miller’s excuse for another is that ...

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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 ...

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 ...