New novel has Doyle, Bell working together

This has jumped to the top of my must-read list – the forthcoming “The Dark Water” by David Pirie, which imagines a real-life inspiration for many of the stories in the canon.
Holmes aficionados know well the story of Conan Doyle and his muse, Dr. Joseph Bell. Bell was Doyle’s university professor at Edinburgh and later [...]

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Doyle not “in the nation’s consciousness,” says department of culture

Snobbery certainly appears to be to blame in the department of culture, media and sport’s (DCMS) refusal to list Doyle’s former home in Undershaw as a protected property.
An advisory report written for Ms Jowell by English Heritage suggested that the writer does not occupy a “position in the nation’s consciousness” as great as that of [...]

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