Edinburgh Conan Doyle Project

There's still plenty of time to submit a proposal for our conference, 'Conan Doyle and Storytelling'. London, 10th - 11th December. edinburgh-conan-doyle.org/conan-doyle-20… #CFP

@CanadianHolmes The likeness is uncanny!

Charles Altamont Doyle, father of ACD, born #OTD 1832. Here he is with his son Arthur.

Sherlock Holmes examines rural/suburban housing: "a feeling of isolation, and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there." —Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches," in #StrandMagazine, 1892. archive.org/details/Strand… #SherlockHolmes #ArthurConanDoyle

Late in the day DHL delivery. The recently published Edinburgh University Press annotated edition of ACDs autobiography MEMORIES AND ADVENTURES.

See inside NYC's first comprehensive Sherlock Holmes exhibition in 50 years timeout.com/newyork/things…

If you haven't listened to the BBC Radio 4 series yet, this is the best place to start. @BertCoules took a fresh approach to Sherlock Holmes on radio and helped to make a series that will last the ages.

This is the Sherlock Holmes exhibition to see, folks. sherlockin221objects.org

My Conan Doyle Sherlock library is finished. A photographic thread.

Having given my paper on non-Anglophone pastiches as appropriations of Sherlock Holmes at the "Conan Doyle and Storytelling" conference, it's time to relax and enjoy @profccferguson's keynote at @DoyleConference @DoyleEdinburgh

@ProfDarrylJones Hough on its tod is 'how', so I would imagine it would be something like 'gren-how'.

Ok Twitter, I need your help. How do you pronounce the middle name of Strand editor Herbert Greenhough Smith? Greenhow or Greenhoff? I’ve never said it aloud before, and all my reference points are from 1970s Saturday afternoons (Jimmy Greenhoff, Brian Clough, Frank Bough).

CONAN DOYLE CONFERENCE NEWS: draft programme available here -- registration free! docs.google.com/document/d/1AO…

A-hoy-hoy!

For those in the UK: 'The Dying Detective' is on ITV4 in about half an hour. Easily the best of Jeremy Brett's last run. Guest starring Hugh Bonneville and... uh... Roy Hudd.

More Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes all week on ITV4 in the UK and on catch up. Today at 1.35pm is the Creeping Man. Unmissable Sherlock.

Saturday delivery! The second volume of Dans la tête de #SherlockHolmes: L'affaire du ticket scandal. The art is extraordinary in this series. Love that Mycroft is based on Charles Gray’s interpretation. I really hope English-language editions will turn up at some point.

This excerpt from a letter in the current issue of the Fortean Times truly has it all

Nicholas Meyer discussing his new book at (with) The Mysterious Bookshop. Looking forward to getting my grabby hands on a copy of this. youtube.com/watch?v=C51cnT…

OTD in 1912, #ACD gave a speech entitled 'Reminiscences of George Meredith' at De Keyser's Royal Hotel, London.