TIME

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SHERLOCK HOLMES MAY BE THE greatest detective ever. But it turns out his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, was no slouch himself. In a gripping new book, Conan Doyle for the Defense, journalist Margalit Fox tells the maddening story of how a German-Jewis

The Atlantic

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The BBC show seems to have difficulty fitting female characters into its universe. But it isn’t Arthur Conan Doyle’s fault.

Wanderlust

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Wanderlust Club members get the chance to win a three-night stay on Tregulland & Co’s fabulous new narrowboat. Blackbird is located on a secret lake on the North Devon/Cornwall border and offers the perfect cosy and off-grid ‘boat-hole’ with its luxu

Orion Magazine

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PERHAPS the most obvious example is Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay’s Gothic pastoral about a group of girls who venture to the top of a mountain and fall into a kind of metaphysical sleep. But it’s as much a tradition, the story of uncertain wo

TIME

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WHEN YOU’RE TRYING TO SELL A SCRIPT, THE NAME Sherlock Holmes evidently helps. Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Downey Jr., Ian McKellen and Jonny Lee Miller have all played versions of the character in the past decade, and last year’s Netflix hit Enola

Woman's Own

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Shown over four nights, new ITV drama series Flesh and Blood stars Francesca Annis as Vivien, a recently widowed mum and grandmother, who sends her family into a spin by revealing that she’s got a new man. ‘Vivien’s very interesting and contemporary,

Writing Magazine

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How do you follow up one of the most fiendishly high-concept murder mystery novels ever written? If you are Stuart Turton, the author of prize-winning, bestselling, mindboggling debut The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, the answer is that you don’

PLAY

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Looking like the guy who stalks 30 Seconds To Mars, Frogwares’ new Sherlock Holmes adventure is taking us back to where it all began, to the great detective’s early years padding around the family estate. Set before the events of previous adventures

BBC History Magazine

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“Arthur Conan Doyle hadn’t practised for ten years due to the suc- cess of his Sherlock Holmes books, but was so keen to get out to the Boer War that he signed up with a field hospital as a surgeon. The war was also an excuse for him to leave his per

Total Film

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SHERLOCK AT THIS! MORI-ARTFUL ARTH-DECENT SEE WATSON ELSEWHERE SIGN OF THE BORE MOVIE OF THE MONTH WHY MILLIE BOBBY BROWN’S ENOLA IS A TRUE DETECTIVE

Reader's Digest UK

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A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin (HarperCollins, £14.99) IF YOU DIDN’Tknow that Sophie Irwin once wrote a dissertation on Georgette Heyer—the queen, and possibly inventor, of Regency Romance novels—then it wouldn’t be hard to guess f

Time Magazine International Edition

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WHEN YOU’RE TRYING TO SELL A SCRIPT, THE NAME Sherlock Holmes evidently helps. Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Downey Jr., Ian McKellen and Jonny Lee Miller have all played versions of the character in the past decade, and last year’s Netflix hit Enola

WHO

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In the raunchy period drama about King Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), Dormer was first to get the chop as Anne Boleyn. As Margaery Tyrell in the fantasy epic, she had Cersei (Lena Headey) on her toes for a while before meeting an explosive end

History Revealed

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In the 1870s, postal workers in the Belgian city of Liege attempted to train 37 cats to deliver the mail (fastened around their necks in waterproof bags). The experiment was not a success: the cats just wandered off. In 1903, Sherlock Holmes creator

Fortean Times

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Spiritualism and the Pseudoscientific Method Brian McCuskey Penn State University Press 2021 Hb, 195pp, £27.95, ISBN 9780271089874 The “trick” Brian McCuskey investigates involves the frequently drawn contrast between the cool, analytical approach of

PC Gamer (US Edition)

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In one trial, you defend famous Japanese novelist Soseki, who visited Great Britain in the 19th century. Another Conan Doyle character, Lestrade is the surname of the Scotland Yard detective who consults Sherlock. This is a witch who makes waxwork mo

Edge

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Not all clues wait politely to be plucked from the crime scene. Mystery substances are identified in an equation-balancing minigame, while eavesdropping on residents enables you to sift through snippets of idle chatter to find vital nuggets, some rev

Los Angeles Times

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In the rare moments when the mystery spoof "Holmes & Watson" clicks, the movie is like a cross between a raunchy '80s comedy and a Daffy Duck cartoon. As super-detective Sherlock Holmes, Will Ferrell is just like Daffy, the overconfident hero, bluste

Writing Magazine

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If genre-busting experimental novelist David Mitchell were a musical genre, he’d be a psychedelic prog rock band. The Cloud Atlas author’s creative flights of fantasy, replete with repeating riffs and dizzying prose that twists the timespace continuu

The Atlantic

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In many works of art, clothes are more than mere decoration; they are vital elements of story: Your weekly guide to the best in books

SFX

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UK/US Netflix, streaming from 26 March ▶ Creator Tom Bidwell ▶ Cast Thaddea Graham, Darci Shaw, Jojo Macari, McKell David, Harrison Osterfield, Royce Pierreson EPISODES 1.01-1.08 “Sherlock Holmes is a wanker!” It’s not the sort of line you usually he

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher Titan Comics Writer Lavie Tidhar Artist Paul McCaffrey ISSUES 1-3 Bringing to mind a “League Of Extraordinary Gentlewomen”, Adler’s cast of classic, mostly Victorian characters means it explores a well-worn furrow, but Lav

PC Gamer

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Redirecting power to weapons Star Wars: Squadrons Finally justified buying that expensive flightstick. Crashing helicopters Squad Learned the true value of teamwork. Now he just needs to work out who’s on his team. Gacha questions Genshin Impact Br

Chat

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Adrian Dunbar, Vicky McClure and Martin Compston return as AC-12 regulars Superintendent Ted Hastings, DI Kate Fleming and DS Steve Arnott in the much-anticipated sixth series of the police corruption drama. The seven-parter also stars Trainspotting

World Coin News

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The Royal Mint will be commemorating 160 years since the birth of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, with a coin dedicated to his most famous creation – the detective Sherlock Holmes. The sleuth’s profile, complete with pipe and deerstalker will appear on a 50p

Writing Magazine

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If you’ve always liked Sherlock Holmes stories and fancied writing a few here’s the publisher for you. MX Publishing is devoted to bringing readers ‘the best in new Sherlock Holmes novels, biographies, graphic novels and short story collections every

BBC Science Focus Magazine

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One of the most famous fictional detectives of all time is Sherlock Holmes. Holmes uses his extraordinary skills of observation to crack seemingly impossible cases. What you might not know is that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holme

Fairlady

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Sherlock Holmes has had so many incarnations over the years that it’s hard to keep track. In BBC’s Sherlock, he’s a ‘high-functioning sociopath’. In Elementary, he’s an ex-addict living in New York, with Watson reimagined as his sober female companio

PLAY

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FORMAT PS5, PS4 / ETA 12 MAY PUB SQUARE ENIX / DEV HAND INC. PLAYERS 1 If the words ‘live-action game’ and ‘Square Enix’ make you think of the The Quiet Man, know that the publisher has been involved with FMV games much longer, and much more successf

The Rake

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Those on even nodding terms with literature’s greatest detective (sorry, Hercule) will know that Irene Adler has intrigued fans of Sherlock Holmes for generations — in everything from the original prose to some rather risqué manga of the now. Her con