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How to watch A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No. 249 online or on TV

Kit Harrington stars in this years A Ghost Story for Christmas. Here's how you can watch Lot No. 249 online and from anywhere.

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Best crime fiction books: Murder mysteries and detective novels that will have you hooked

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Evening Standard

Arthur Conan Doyle secretly resented his Sherlock Holmes creation, says historian

Author blamed literary success of the fictional detective for his highbrow historical novels ‘lying unread’

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Killing Sherlock: Lucy Worsley On The Case Of Conan Doyle — release date, episode guide, exclusive interview and everything we know

Killing Sherlock: Lucy Worsley On The Case Of Conan Doyle on BBC Two asks why the author grew to hate his famous sleuth.

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‘The Undead Archive’ exhibit: Contemporary artists respond to 1920s photos of mediums manifesting spirits

In July 1923, the British author Arthur Conan Doyle arrived in Winnipeg to give a public lecture, “The Proofs of Immortality,” as part of a 40-city North American tour that attracted sizable audiences.

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How Sherlock Holmes, ancient Egypt and a mysterious 'curse' inspired Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie published The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb in September 1923, almost a year after the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. Her Hercule Poirot short story drew inspiration from the sensationalised folklore of the “mummy’s curse”. Lord Carnarvon, sponsor of the excavation, had died…

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The game is afoot: BBC goes crazy for Sherlock Holmes creator Conan Doyle with two new shows

Lucy Worsley will examine Arthur Conan Doyle's fraught relationship with his most famous creation, and one of his ghost stories will be dramatised with Kit Harington this Christmas

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First edition Sherlock Holmes book owned by Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts sells for record £214,000

Late Rolling Stones drummer owned an impressive collection of rare and first edition books by crime fiction legends including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie

The Independent UK

The war on motorists: the secret history of a myth as old as cars themselves

From safe speed limits to low-traffic neighbourhoods, the argument about how much we build the world around motorists has raged since the turn of the twentieth century - and is still gathering pace

The Guardian - UK

Love for books

Reading is key to education success; I learned this when I was 9 and met a boy at the bus stop who asked if I read story books. We discovered authors like Enid Blyton, W.E. Jones, Anthony Buckeridge, Arthur Conan Doyle, R.K. Narayan, and P.G. Wodehouse. Reading these books helped…

The Hindu

The much-loved seaside resort facing summer without its most famous attraction

Regular visitors included Sherlock Holmes author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Manchester Evening News

The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 7 January 2023

The Sinaloa Cartel was dealt a significant blow this week with the capture of Ovidio Guzmán. You know the name. The city of Culiacán descended into an orgy of retaliatory violence.

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Now Anybody Can Write a Sherlock Holmes Story

Nearly a century after author Arthur Conan Doyle's death, the character is finally free.

Reason

Something is afoot with copyright this Public Domain Day

On New Year’s Day, copyright in the US expires on a new clutch of artistic works. But shady legal shenanigans mean it’s a little overdue…

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Chicago Sun-Times

Last Sherlock Holmes work among 2023 public domain books, movies, music

The long-running contested copyright dispute over Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s tales of a whipsmart detective will finally come to an end as the 1927 copyrights expiring Jan. 1 include Conan Doyle’s last Sherlock Holmes work.

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Manor Once Owned By ‘Sherlock Holmes’ Author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle On Sale

“It's a beautifully built house that still has all three of the original stone fireplaces Sir Arthur put in. The post Manor once owned by ‘Sherlock Holmes’ author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on sale appeared first on Talker.

Salon

Magpie Murders' "disgusting" anagram

Author Anthony Horowitz tells Salon about avoiding a bad word, a Sherlock Holmes inspiration and what comes next

Wales Online

Woodland house used as a retreat by Sherlock Holmes author is up for sale

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The Independent UK

Woodland house used as a retreat by Sherlock Holmes author for sale

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s former Bignell Wood home in the New Forest has an asking price of just under £3 million.

Edinburgh Live

What Edinburgh's Picardy Place will look like when '20 years of roadworks' end next year

The council's transport chief said the new island will be somewhere where people will 'dwell when they're waiting on the bus or tram'.

The Conversation

AI image generation is advancing at astronomical speeds. Can we still tell if a picture is fake?

Fake photography is nothing new. In the 1910s, British author Arthur Conan Doyle was famously deceived by two school-aged sisters who had produced photographs of elegant fairies cavorting in their garden.

Inverse

'Picard' Season 3 trailer reboots a villain Star Trek stole from another franchise

There are three villains in 'Star Trek: Picard' Season 3, one new, and two "old friends." Here's what the return of Lore and Professor Moriarty might mean of the big 'Next Generation' send-off.

The Guardian - UK

Visions of Egypt review – how can this show be so devoid of ancient wonder?

Ancient Egypt has inspired passion and awe in the western world for centuries – yet this confused show wants to chide us for it

Salon

LOTR stars seek justice for Moriarty

Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd spoke to Salon about the "annoying" Sherlock, Shakespeare & their long friendship

Reason

Why Ryan Reynolds Can Use Winnie-the-Pooh To Sell You a Phone Plan

As pop culture icons enter the public domain, a strange new era of copyright begins.

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