The Portsmouth Shantymen did a fantastic performance of The Old Gray Fox as part of their after-dinner set for the Sherlock Holmes Society of London’s visit to Pompey last weekend! The jokes in the song went down very well with the crowd after a few tots of rum!

September 1898 saw the first US appearance of #ACD's 'Songs of Action.' It contains the poem 'The Old Gray Fox' which was later put to music. www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...

OTD in 1914, John Murray published the collected #ACD's 'Sherlock Holmes - The Complete Long Stories.' www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...

And now I'll take that night, the 13th of September, 1894, and I'll give you just exactly what occurred, and may God's hand strike me down if I go one inch over the truth.' From #ACD's 'B.24.' www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...

World Book Club: Arthur Conan Doyle – The Hound of the Baskervilles On BBC Sounds: Harriet Gilbert, @damedenisemina.bsky.social & @drmjones.bsky.social – co-host of @doingsofdoyle.com – discuss Sherlock Holmes’s lasting influence on crime & detective fiction 💙📚 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

OTD in 1913, The Daily Mail published a letter from #ACD on the lack of compensation for George Edalji, "a disgrace to the administration of this country." We talked to Shrabani Basu about the Edalji case in Episode 16. www.doingsofdoyle.com/2021/07/16-c...

September 11th.—Lat. 81 degrees 40’ N.; long. 2 degrees E.' The opening line of #ACD's 'The Captain of the Pole-Star,' as featured in Episode 3 of the podcast. www.doingsofdoyle.com/2020/01/3-ca...

This month in 1892, Harper's Monthly Magazine first published #ACD's terrifying short story 'Lot No. 249' as featured in Episode 41 www.doingsofdoyle.com/2023/08/41-l...

This month in 1914, The Strand began serialising #ACD's final Sherlock Holmes novel, the wonderful and often overlooked 'The Valley of Fear.' www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...

This month in 1913, The Pall Mall Magazine published #ACD's 'Borrow-ed Scenes,' an odd work about a fan of the British author, George Borrow. www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...

This month in 1913, The Strand first published #ACD's 'How it Happened,' which was based on a real-life car accident in which he and his brother Innes narrowly escaped serious injury. It was made into a play in 1914 and a short film in 1925. www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...

Our own @drmjones.bsky.social did a thing. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

OTD in 1879, #ACD first appeared in print, with 'The Mystery of Sasassa Valley' in Chamber's Journal and the Leeds Mercury. #ACD was 20 and the work was anonymous until 1893. We discussed the story in Episode 29. www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/08/29-m...

OTD in 1910, a stage adaptation of #ACD's 'A Pot of Caviare,' performed by Arthur Hardy's company, premiered at the New Theatre, Cardiff. We covered the story in Episode 46. www.doingsofdoyle.com/2024/03/49-p...

This month in 1890, #ACD's finally breached the "stout Scottish barrier" of Blackwood's Magazine with his story 'A Physiologist's Wife.' www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...

On the upper floor of the Northumberland Avenue establishment there is an isolated corner where two couches lie side by side, and it was on these that we lay upon September 3, 1902, the day when my narrative begins.' From #ACD's 'The Illustrious Client.' www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...

OTD in 1882, All The Year Round first published #ACD's short story 'That Veteran.' www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...

In September 1908, Smith, Elder & Co first published the collected 'Round the Fire Stories,' a cracking set of tales including 'The Brown Hand' as recently featured in Episode 64 www.doingsofdoyle.com/2025/06/64-s...

NOW ON YOUTUBE - Crabbe's Practice (1884/1922). ACD's tale of a struggling doctor who turns to unscrupulous methods to drum up business. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x34...

NEW EPISODE - Crabbe's Practice (1884/1922). A young doctor resorts to outlandish means to drum up patients. Chat about: George Turnavine Budd, the Bulgarian atrocities, malign medicos, galvanic batteries, and rewriting the story in the 1920s. #ArthurConanDoyle www.doingsofdoyle.com/2025/08/66-c...

The fantastic @bbcworldbookclub.bsky.social is recording a show on Arthur Conan Doyle on 20 August with Harriet Gilbert, @valmcdermid.bsky.social and our very own @drmjones.bsky.social. Tickets are required but free! Come along if you can!

Always great to talk to @jfmachin.bsky.social, this time about 'Stark Munro'. A very entertaining novel, but definitely something of a curate's egg. Looking forward to digging into his new anthology of Buchan's Strange Stories for @blpublishing.bsky.social which arrived yesterday.

NOW ON YOUTUBE: The Stark Munro Letters (1895), with James Machin, editor of the new Edinburgh University Press edition. www.youtube.com/watch?v=izwq...

NEW EPISODE: The Stark Munro Letters (1895), with @jfmachin.bsky.social, editor of the new Edinburgh University Press edition. Chat about: reading the book for the first time, Cullingworth-Budd, controversy and the original ending. Plus Buchan's weird tales. www.doingsofdoyle.com/2025/07/65-s...

WORLDWIDE DOYLE 2025 - All four excellent lectures from this year's Worldwide Doyle series from Portsmouth City Libraries are now live at our YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle #ACD #ArthurConanDoyle

NOW ON YOUTUBE: The Story of the Brown Hand (1898) - Dr Hardacre investigates an apparition that is pushing his uncle, a brave Indian army veteran, to his grave... www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5sB...

NEW EPISODE: The Story of the Brown Hand (1898) - #ArthurConanDoyle's unconventional ghost story. Chat about Hound prototypes, Pashtuns, Sir Anthony Dickson Home, Shadwell and disembodied hands... bit.ly/DOD064sn

WORLDWIDE DOYLE 2025 - TONIGHT #3/4 - 25 June 2025 7pm - Dr Jonathan Cranfield: “Conan Doyle: Marriage and Divorce” wegottickets.com/event/660554

WORLDWIDE DOYLE 2025 - The annual online lecture series from Portsmouth City Libraries #4/4 - 3 July 2025 7pm -Sheldon Goldfarb: “Conan Doyle, Misquoter” wegottickets.com/event/660557

Our very own @drmjones.bsky.social has been doing a thing.

WORLDWIDE DOYLE 2025 - TONIGHT #2/4 - 11 June 2025 7pm - Clifford Goldfarb: “If Arthur Conan Doyle Met Charles Dickens” wegottickets.com/event/660553

WORLDWIDE DOYLE 2025 - The annual online lecture series from Portsmouth City Libraries #3/4 - 25 June 2025 7pm - Dr Jonathan Cranfield: “Conan Doyle: Marriage and Divorce” wegottickets.com/event/660554

WORLDWIDE DOYLE 2025 - #1/4 TONIGHT 05 June 2025 7pm - Burt Wolder: “Conan Doyle: Adventurous Life, Enduring Memories“ wegottickets.com/event/660551

WORLDWIDE DOYLE 2025 - The annual online lecture series, courtesy of Portsmouth City Council #2/4 - 11 June 2025 7pm - Clifford Goldfarb: “If Arthur Conan Doyle Met Charles Dickens” wegottickets.com/event/660553

WORLDWIDE DOYLE 2025 - You can now book for the annual online lecture series provided by Portsmouth City Council. #1/4 - 05 June 2025 7pm - Burt Wolder: “Conan Doyle: Adventurous Life, Enduring Memories“ wegottickets.com/event/660551

NEW EPISODE: 'The Man from Archangel' (1885). John McVittie is interrupted when two strangers are shipwrecked near his remote coastal estate... Chat about: misanthropes, unreliable narrators, nihilists, whether this really was ACD's favourite, and gun maintenance. bit.ly/DODoyle; bit.ly/DOD063sn

NOW ON YOUTUBE: The Man from Archangel (1885), ACD's tale of a misanthropic lawyer who retreats to the Scottish coast, only to have his solitude shattered by two castaways. www.youtube.com/watch?v=akcn... Show notes: bit.ly/DOD063sn

Born OTD in 1859, doctor, author, campaigner, sportsman, spiritualist, wannabe Viking - #ArthurConanDoyle. What a life and legacy!

OTD in 1921, the Coliseum in London held a performance of #ACD's 'The Crown Diamond,' a Sherlock Holmes play he later adapted as 'The Mazarin Stone.' www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...

OTD in 1912, the battle of letters between #GeorgeBernardShaw and #ArthurConanDoyle over the Titanic continued to rage. We alluded to the exchanges in Episode 4. www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...

This month in 1892, the Strand Magazine first published #ACD's 'The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet,' which features some trademark sleuthing about footprints in the snow. www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...

OTD in 1884, Cassell's Saturday Journal published #ACD's short story 'The Cabman's Story.' www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...

This month in 1897, Pearson's Magazine first published #ACD's 'The Voyage of Copley Banks,' the third of Sharkey tales as featured in Episode 7. www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...

OTD in 1899, the Daily Chronicle featured a letter from #ACD criticising the publication of reviews by the same author on the same book in multiple journals. What would he have made of Amazon I wonder… www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...

OTD in 1892, the Indianapolis News first published #ACD's 'A Regimental Scandal,' about a Major who is caught cheating at cards. www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...

OTD in 1893, 'Jane Annie: Or, The Good Conduct Prize,' a comic play by #ACD and J. M Barrie, premiered at the Savoy. George Bernard Shaw said it was the most foolish thing any two individuals could do in public... #notafan www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...

Now tagging @andrewfinkel.bsky.social !

OTD in 1904, Collier's first published #ArthurConanDoyle's 'The Adventure of the Six Napoleons,' surely one of the most iconic cases in the Return. Mark and Paul will be joining Ed Pettit to discuss the story in May's Sherlock Monthly. www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...

OTD in 1918, Hodder & Stoughton first published #ArthurConanDoyle's 'The New Revelation,' arguably his most important public foray into Spiritualism. www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?ti...

NOW ON YOUTUBE: The Adventure of the Second Wife, with Andrew Finkel. We talk to Andrew about his debut novel, Istanbul, the legacy of Abdulhamid II and what it's like to meet Sherlockians! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kger...