A museum dedicated to one of London’s most famous literary characters, founded in 1989 on a site as close as possible to the one which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s super sleuth is described as ...

One summer evening in 1889, a young medical school graduate named Arthur Conan Doyle arrived by train at London’s Victoria Station and took a hansom cab two and a half miles north to the famed ...

A gang of sharp witted street kids save Sherlock Holmes from an accusation of murder and to help foil an audacious robbery.

Literary lovers, listen up. There really is nothing quite like a good story to take you away from the worries of the world, and with the hoards of iconic poets, authors and playwrights that have ...

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