Tag: Arthur Conan Doyle

Theater Review: ‘A Sherlock Carol’: It’s Never Too Late to Change

NEW YORK —The fictional worlds of Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lovingly collide in playwright Mark Shanahan’s not-at-all humbug, “A Sherlock Carol” at New World Stages. This delightful mash-up features beloved literary characters, one from the Dickens’ novella “A Christmas Carol” and various elements from Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories—in particular, the only Holmes tale Doyle set during Christmas: “The…


Something for Summer Reading: ‘The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes’ by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Among the lords of light literature, Sherlock Holmes towers. There is not much mystery about it, either. It is really quite “elementary, my dear Watson.” “The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes,” published in 1892–93 in “The Strand Magazine” by Arthur Conan Doyle, are a collection of 12 remarkable cases in Mr. Holmes’ remarkable career. These include the…