And it's a good thing, too!

Many thanks to the @acdsociety.bsky.social for recognising @davehone.bsky.social and my chapter on Arthur Conan Doyle and Michael Crichton in "Palaeontology in Public"! For the Open Access volume, ed. by @chrismanias.bsky.social: uclpress.co.uk/book/palaeon...

And now, the results of the Wessex Cup. You can watch the first race of the morning here: bsky.app/profile/myst...

The inaugural race of this year’s Wessex Cup hosted by the Arthur Conan Doyle Society in our store

The Envelopes Please ... for the Fifth Annual Doylean Honors! We announced our 2026 Doylean Honorees earlier today in a ceremony at Otto Penzler's The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City. Details here -- acdsociety.com -- and congratulations to all the winners!

When the Wessex Cup races are run at The Mysterious Bookshop on Thursday, January 8, will there be 4 tiny toy horses in the running, or will there be 8? There are still 4 ponies left. So, if you'd like to have a pony in the Wessex Cup, you can get one here -- acdsociety.com/Cup/Stables2...

7 ponies whose names highlight ACD’s ties to the 7 continents will race in the Wessex Cup on Jan. 8. 4 are still available: Garnet (Africa), Ranjitsinhji (India), Shackleton (Antarctica), Kiplings (North America). To learn more, or even have a pony in the race, go: acdsociety.com/Cup/Stables2...

Done!

Today is the last day! So, please nominate your favorite 2024 and 2025 Doylean works for our annual Doylean Honors awards now! The forms are here - acdsociety.com/Honors/Honors.htm - and the awards ceremony will be held at the Mysterious Bookshop in NYC (www.mysteriousbookshop.com) on January 8.

NEW EPISODE: The Adventure of the Illustrious Client (1924) - Sherlock Holmes battles the sinister Austrian murderer, Baron Adelbert Gruner. Chat about: society fixers, camp colonels, Dracula, vitriol and much more. Shownotes: bit.ly/DOD69sn.

Want to compete in our Wessex Cup? Stables for the January 8, 2026 running of the Wessex Cup — to be held right after the Society’s annual Doylean Honors ceremony Otto Penzler's Mysterious Bookshop — are on sale now. Details are available at our website: acdsociety.com

Once again, I’m on the panel for the Arthur Conan Doyle Society’s award for scholarly writing. Read a good academic piece published this year? Nominate it here by 30 November. acdsociety.com/Honors/Honor...

The race to the finish for Doylean Honors nominations! Nov. 30 is the deadline for ACD Society members to nominate new (202425) Doylean works in 4 categories: Fiction & Poetry Performing Arts Scholarly Writing Visual Arts Forms/instructions (simple and easy) here: acdsociety.com/Honors/Honor...

The way I got the postcard out of my post box, turned it around, and literally said: "awww Glen!" out loud in the middle of the hallway :D

Check it out -- see all the fantastic annotations for this project at acdsociety.com/bjg/a/bjga.h... Four pages of front matter and 12 pages of manuscript to date. We are 'mining the Gap'!

The latest A Common Newsletter is out, with Anna Brindisi Behrens's "Mad-Doctors" article for Margie Deck and Nancy Holder's "Terror of Blue John Gap" project, and much more (including Doylean Honors, Wessex Cup, membership renewal, and Glen Miranker's Sign of Four MS). acdsociety.com

Details coming soon.

It’s Doylean Honors Season Again! It’s time to nominate your favorite recent works of Doylean fiction, poetry, visual art, and scholarship for the ACD Society’s annual awards. Nomination forms are here: acdsociety.com/Honors/Honors.htm. The deadline for nominations is Nov. 30, so please do it soon!

Today the Red Circle of Washington DC met. I’ll certainly write a post but the coolest thing that I saw while I was there with these earrings made by Sheridan as copies of the Strand magazine with stories inside!!!! #sherlock

Norwegian Explorer Melissa Aho has discovered a Sherlockian Dancing Man in St. Paul. See number 44 on the updated Dancing Man map. Thank you Melissa!

The 2025 Baker Street Almanac is finally set for mailing next week (with a small companion), due to the efforts of many fine Sherlockians (bless you and thank you, every one!), especially Pamela Sullivan, Ira Matetsky, Rich Krisciunas,Mike McSwiggin, Sue and Ben Vizoskie, and Harrison Terry Hunt!

The nationwide search for the Collier's Dancing Men in 1903 newspapers continues, and so do the discoveries. Congratulations to Bruce Harris, who has added the Louisville Times (home of Dancing Man number XXXIX) to the map.

Margie Deck and Nancy Holder are back with more Terror. Max Magee is the authorial star of this installment of “The Terror of Blue John Gap,” with annotations for pages 1 and 11. Visit both pages for some terrifying illumination! acdsociety.com

Third of four Conan Doyle letters held by the State Library of New South Wales. I've dated this one to 31 March 1884 (very specific!) and there's plenty of connections and context.... 221bcooee.blogspot.com/2025/06/dear...

Congratulation @drmjones.bsky.social !

The Summer Sherlock Holmes Journal is hitting doorsteps. It’s my first issue as editor since taking over from the inestimable Roger Johnson earlier this year. Thanks to @acdsociety.bsky.social, Ron Levitsky, Daniel Friedman, @canadianholmes.bsky.social and @221bcooee.bsky.social

Next Wed. at 2pm ET, Cliff Goldfarb will present "If Arthur Conan Doyle Met Charles Dickens" as part of Portsmouth Libraries' Worldwide Doyle lecture series. Don't miss this fine scholar and speaker on this intriguing (and, surely, entertaining) topic! Register free: wegottickets.com/event/660553

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

Don't forget to attend online! This year's first Worldwide Doyle Lecture from Portsmouth Library -- Burt Wolder on "Conan Doyle: Adventurous Life, Enduring Memories" -- is in a few hours (Thursday, June 5, at 2pm US Eastern Time). Register for free here: 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

Newly framed

This is going to be fun! They've not disappointed yet.👍

Worldwide Doyle is back! It is time for the Portsmouth Library's annual Doylean lecture series. Zoom in for free on June 5, 11, and 25, and July 3. wegottickets.com/event/660551 wegottickets.com/event/660553 wegottickets.com/event/660554 wegottickets.com/event/660557 acdsociety.com

Ever wonder what inspired my @acdsociety.bsky.social award-winning poem 'The Ascent'? See the staircase and other features of Conan Doyle’s former home Undershaw by joining the livestream of @mxpublishing.bsky.social’s Evening With Sherlock Holmes. www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...

The Bimetallic Question's "All of Doyle" discussion group will focus on Switzerland on May 13 at 7pm ET. Learn more here: acdsociety.com

@margiedeck.bsky.social & Nancy Holder are back with another page in The Terror of Blue John Gap Project: "we find ourselves with an abundance of new commentators to enlighten us about this page of Doyle’s manuscript and, indeed, about a great deal more." See "page 10" for Terror! acdsociety.com

Lee Simpson of The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club, reports: "Whilst working through all the Presidential Address and Subsidiary Toasts from 1894... I have just discovered that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gave the reply to the Toast to Literature in 1901." www.walterscottclub.com/blog/reply-t...

Have been invited to write a chapter on Arthur Conan Doyle’s *Micah Clarke*, so now I get to explore the biggest event in Pittard family history: yes, it’s the 1685 Monmouth Rebellion!

Finally managed to get the @acdsociety.bsky.social Doylean awards for Fiction up in the library. Doesn’t look too shabby for a DIY project. 🙂

A well-deserved honor!

Delighted to receive this award! Thanks to the panel and @acdsociety.bsky.social

I'm delighted to say I've received an award from the @acdsociety.bsky.social for my contribution to Arthur Conan Doyle scholarship! I'm thrilled to have been chosen, alongside some superb winners in other categories: acdsociety.com

Sorry - should have tagged @sherlockphd.bsky.social and @acdsociety.bsky.social. Oops!

We announced the 2025 Doylean Honorees last Thursday at The Mysterious Bookshop in NYC. For a complete list of the honorees, visit acdsociety.com. Pictured here are Crystal Noll and Heather Holloway presenting an award to Hal Glatzer, and Derrick Belanger presenting to Nicholas Meyer.

Many thanks to Ross Davies and the @acdsociety.bsky.social for the lovely award for Honors in Fiction during today’s gathering at @mysteriousbookshop.com. ‘The Genius of the Place’ means a lot to me and I’m grateful to Derrick Belanger and Brian Belanger for believing in the book. 🥹

I have a pony named Imperturbable. It's green, after opals.