any chance of a repost to try and get us over the line @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social ? thx campaign to fund our unique holmes prose novella ends Fri lunchtime www.kickstarter.com/projects/tri...?

Facsimilie of the 1892 Newnes ‘The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ , published by Charles Winthrope & Sons in 2015. Comes in gold DJ. Beautiful, and good for those who won’t own the real thing.

In 1887, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle, defended smallpox vaccination in newspaper letters. As Harriet Hall notes, the anti-vaccine arguments he answered sound much like today's.

If the heat ever makes you see things that aren’t actually there in Crushed In Time, learn to tell the difference! 🔎👀 Or perhaps they’re bugs? Sorry: narrative features.

“My God, what’s that, Watson?” “I don’t know. It’s a sound they have on the moor. I heard it once before.” It died away, and an absolute silence closed in upon us. We stood straining our ears, but nothing came. “Watson,” said the baronet, “it was the cry of a hound.” Hound of the Baskervilles.”

Now is also a very good time to register for NEXT WEEK’S Worldwide Doyle lecture by Ollie Randall (“Doyle and Cricket: A Passion for the Game”), Tuesday, July 1, also at 11am PT, 2pm ET, 7pm BST, also online and free, and also easy to register for: wegottickets.com/f/22404.

Not now, tiny particle that could erase the universe at any moment

My new article out in 'The Magic Door' on Australian artist Mortimer Menpes, and his portrait of Conan Doyle in South Africa - where is it now? 221bcooee.blogspot.com/2026/06/mort...

My piece, about Writers in Whites and the literary cricket culture wars, is out in The Times today: www.thetimes.com/sport/cricke...

My new article out in 'The Magic Door' on Australian artist Mortimer Menpes, and his portrait of Conan Doyle in South Africa - where is it now? 221bcooee.blogspot.com/2026/06/mort...

From Nova Scotia to New England. Cabot's Cove to Founder's Cove. #MurderSheWrote to #GilmoreGirls. You're Killing Me creator Robin Bernheim discusses the quirky community that is the Murder Capital of New England. #YoureKillingMe #YMK Full Interview: youtu.be/3Wj1-jlx_LY

'The recognition of their existence will jolt the material twentieth-century mind out of its heavy ruts in the mud, and will make it admit that there is a glamour and a mystery to life.' A. Conan Doyle in the article 'Fairies Photographed', on the Cottingley Fairies. The Strand, 1920 #BookWormSat

Absolutely delighted to be back at Dr Johnson's House to give another lunchtime talk - this time on Ravenscourt! Lunch is included with the ticket!  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mapping-the-gothic-venice-asylums-and-the-victorian-imagination-tickets-1990478674297?aff=oddtdtcreator

It’s alive!

Thanks to everyone who tuned in to the livestream with @morbidlycuriousbc.bsky.social! If you'd like to preorder SLEUTH-HOUND with the specially designed bookplate by @tealcartoons.bsky.social, visit the website, click "Club Message Board," and then click Fred & Junes's! morbidlycuriousbookclub.com

Proof that Patches of @morbidlycuriousbc.bsky.social and I are sisters from another mister. Also proof that we can't stay on topic! Whether you preorder my new book SLEUTH-HOUND or not, you *should* join the Morbidly Curious Book Club because it's awesome fun: www.morbidlycuriousbookclub.com

Have you ever had occasion to study character in handwriting? www.swanngalleries.com/auction-lot/...

Hey #SherlockHolmes people of Bluesky, look what's out now, available both physically and electronically. Like the first issue, it has a short article by me and great contributions by lots of people who aren't me.

I'll be doing a livestream on Tuesday, June 16th at 3pm EST w/ @morbidlycuriousbc.bsky.social, where I'll be giving a first look into my new book SLEUTH-HOUND, about the Scottish surgeon Joe Bell, who inspired the creation of Sherlock Holmes! Bookmark this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFD_...

@221bcooee.bsky.social this should be announced at Tin Box tomorrow

Some good news for your late night!

Checked in on the ACD plaque at Circular Quay in Sydney - still in good shape. #sherlock

Briskly forward into a beautiful new day! 🌞

Some new Sherock/Doyle books 221bcooee.blogspot.com/2026/06/some...

Some new Sherock/Doyle books 221bcooee.blogspot.com/2026/06/some...

Sherlock Hound (1984) #animationtidbits #sakuga #animation #2danimation

OK, but in Christie's earliest stories/novels Poirot is *already* a retired police officer, so a 'Young Poirot' series would be set in the 1870s or 1880s. He's about 120 by the time *Curtain* was published in 1975. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/e...

Look at these! Also, I didn't realise that Dover had their own edition of *The Mystery of a Hansom Cab* (I used the Hogarth edition for *Purity and Contamination*) but it's not at all surprising.

Okay, I’ll watch (and I hope it’s good!) #Booksky 💙📚⚡️ www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

"Conan Doyle wasn’t just the creator of Sherlock Holmes but that he was really a multi-talented writer. He also wrote wonderfully evocative ghost stories and historical fiction." fivebooks.com/best-books/s...

This is the best version of Sherlock Holmes

I’m finally starting my Sherlock Holmes reading and, I have to say, NOBODY makes a better Holmes than Jeremy Brett. Nobody. I will take no questions lol.

The Baker Street Irregulars Press just announced a SALE on selected books through July 15th. Most books have been marked down to $10 - $15. #sherlock Definitely worth checking out! bakerstreetirregulars.com/tag/books/

@doingsofdoyle.com In ep 20. Jelland's Voyage, you mention you haven't seen a copy of Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual re the illustrations. This is my copy and there are no illustrations except for his own image. He does illustrate most others. #theoldoakcase #conandoyle #rarebooks #booksky

The Baker Street Irregulars Press just announced a SALE on selected books through July 15th. Most books have been marked down to $10 - $15. #sherlock Definitely worth checking out! bakerstreetirregulars.com/tag/books/

A bright light in many, many hours of my life. Thank you Anthony Head, you amused me so very much. Goodbye.

Anthony Head (1954 – 2026) R.I.P

Watching these two in my favourite screen version of The Hound of the Baskervilles. A reminder of just how good - not to say superb - Cushing and Morell were as Holmes and Watson. A shame we didn't get to see them in the roles again. #sherlockholmes #hammerfilms #TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles

A short blog post on some interesting UK newspaper tidbits on the 1887 Beeton's appearing in the 20th C. 221bcooee.blogspot.com/2026/06/beet...

Arthur Conan Doyle, the author behind Sherlock Holmes, believed in the supernatural. He was a practicing Spiritualist who took part in seances, and wrote a book about the Cottingley Fairies in 1922, arguing that the photos were genuine. #WyrdWednesday

A short blog post on some interesting UK newspaper tidbits on the 1887 Beeton's appearing in the 20th C. 221bcooee.blogspot.com/2026/06/beet...

Sherlock Holmes and the Devil’s Foot (Roy William Neill, 1943) An intrepid lady reporter recruits the world’s greatest consulting detective to investigate a cursed mansion which drives all of its occupants mad. Starring Basil Rathbone, Ida Lupino, Paul Cavanagh, and Arthur Hohl.

top '69 LPs #242: The Secret Life of J. Eddy Fink by Janis Ian. Ian’s ‘70s records defined my single-hipster-drinking-three-dollar-red-wine-alone-at-home twenties (and, let’s be honest, thirties), but her third album isn’t good! At all! I'd be hard-pressed to remember a single song on it.

I am THRILLED to have been accepted as a speaker at the Sherlock Holmes Society of London 75th Anniversary Symposium at the University of Cambridge this September. More info on the weekend here: sherlock-holmes.org.uk/event/septembe…

In Chicago, and visited two hotels Conan Doyle stayed in. #sherlock 221bcooee.blogspot.com/2026/05/acd-...

Arthur Conan Dolye in 1923: "Chicago is the very noisiest city I have ever known. It is a serious drawback to its amenity. All the pavements seem to rumble, all the trains whistle, the taxis hoot, the brakes grind, and the wheels scream."

He did like the Naptown vibe.

In Chicago, and visited two hotels Conan Doyle stayed in. #sherlock 221bcooee.blogspot.com/2026/05/acd-...

Very pleased to say that my new Everett Carr novel, A Sudden Vengeance, is now available in paperback and ebook, published by Level Best Books. If you like character-driven traditional murder mysteries, you'll love my Everett Carr series.

Tonight’s viewing