News about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The 'exceptionally rare' 1889 manuscript (left) of The Sign of Four is expected to sell in New York for up to $1.2 million (£949,000) as part of Sotheby's Auction of June in New York. Before releasing in the United States, the British author (inset) signed the text twice, and it also contains edits to 'Americanize' the text. It will be published alongside a series of letters from Sir Arthur and JM Stoddart, editor of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, where The Sign Of Four first appeared. The letters chronicle the book's progress, including deliberations over the title and the author's delight with the printing and illustrations. Basil Rathbone, right, as the detective.

Antiques Roadshow has been a mainstay of British television, airing on a weekly basis for more than 40 years since 1979. Over the years, a number of bizarre items have appeared on the show. From a 300-year-old 'creepy doll' to a Monopoly board owned by the robbers who carried out the Great Train Robbery, scroll down for a look at some of the most unusual items to have ever been seen on the show.

Sandip Patel, a freelance writer for Sherlock Holmes News on Baker Street in London, stabbed 39-year-old Marina Koppel more than 140 times in her rented flat in Chiltern Street on August 8, 1994. In Mrs Koppel's kitchen, the then 21-year-old student's finger marks were discovered on a carrier bag, but not as a criminal at the time. Patel, 51, was charged with her murder last year after his DNA was matched to hair on the victim's ring, and he was tied by a bloody footprint on a skirting board. During the assault, he reportedly extracted Mrs Koppel's bank card pin and used the number to withdraw money near his house. Patel has been sentenced to life in prison for a minimum term of 19 years.

Even now, 100 years since it was first announced, crowds of all ages have been enthralled by our country's tiniest royal palace. Queen Mary's Dolls' House, which is housed inside Windsor Castle, is not only the world's largest and best-known miniature palace. It's also a mesmerizing glimpse of early twentieth-century royal life, from the tiny, fully working gramophone in the nursery to the racks of real wine in the cellars, and the working lift. This was supposed to be a showcase of great British innovation, with a strictly adhered scale of 1:12 (1 in for what should actually be 1 ft). More than 1,500 leading craftsmen and women will donate their experience and their handiwork. Nonetheless, its most notable feature of all was its library. The leading writers, poets, and artists of the day were invited to pen miniature works. They jumped at the chance, creating hundreds of tiny books, paintings, and drawings. They included a new Sherlock Holmes tale by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, poems by Thomas Hardy, and Sir J.M.'s autobiography. Barrie, the Peter Pan books' author, is the author.

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More than 80% of women and almost three quarters of men questioned in Britain, the United States, and Scandinavia say they have experienced it - whether you're looking at someone from behind who turned and gazed back or looking at someone from behind who turned and wondered back. Several experiments have shown that the sensation can be reproduced under stringent laboratory conditions. Some who photograph people for a living, such as private detectives and celebrity photographers, have no doubt that it's true. Professionals who use long-range lenses, including paparazzi and snipers, know when the target sees their gaze and looks straight at them. It's well documented in literature. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the maker of Sherlock Holmes, had a strange sense of annoyance that accompanies some people when closely examined, and when looking up, his gaze fell on me with ferocity.'

King Charles, who just officially renamed his three major charities, must be grieving his son Harry's estrangement. The Prince's Foundation has been named the King's Foundation, the Prince of Wales' Charitable Fund has been named the King's Trust, and the Prince's Trust is now the Prince's Trust. Charles had hoped that William - and Harry - would continue his work, but The Prince's Trust kept its name under their joint command. While William made it clear he wants to pursue his own enterprises, wouldn't exiled Harry have been ideal to assume the mantle of his Dad's favourite charity?

For almost 120 years, he has been the world's best loved fictional detective. According to leading historian Lucy Worsley (inset), the author behind Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (left) secretly respised his famous work. Ms Worsley argues that Doyle only submitted his first Holmes book in the hopes that he would later be allowed to pursue his true passion, which is historical fiction. A Study in Scarlet, the detective's first book to be published by Ward Lock & Co in 1886, was rejected three times before being accepted by publishers Ward Lock & Co in 1886. The work was exactly what they were looking for, according to them, 'cheap fiction.' Holmes went on to appear in 60 original stories, making Doyle very wealthy, but Ms Worsley was dissatisfied with his failure, which prevented him from fulfilling his long-awaited dream.

Lucy Worsley (inset) has always had a crush on Sherlock Holmes (actor Benedict Cumberbatch is correct). Bookish, fiendishly clever, bohemian, a bit antisocial, what's not to love?However, she has never been so keen on his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (left). So when she was asked to host a new BBC2 series on the author after the success of her Agatha Christie show last year, she was hesitant. 'I was worried he was a nefarious imperialist mansplainer,' she laughs. And that's only partially true.' But nothing is really black and white.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the inventor of Sherlock Holmes, had a mystery life as a footballer, assuming a false name. In a recent BBC documentary Killing Sherlock, historian Lucy Worsley will discuss how the author used the name AC Smith to play for Portsmouth AFC during the 1880s, and she was in fact one of the club's founding members. Sir Arthur, who was then working as a surgeon, had yet to fulfill his ambition of becoming a good writer. Worsley believes Sir Arthur invented the alternate personality because football was not deemed as a suitable middle class profession in the new three-part series.

In the aftermath of launching her own podcast to help ordinary people find solutions to climate change, the Australian actress, 54, declared her intention to grow her own flowers and vegetables. Blanchett, the green-fingered variety, who raises her own herbs and vegetables, is facing obstacles once more. The adverse effect on larger crested newts was said to be 'definite,' although roosting bats can also be affected if they are present, as well as roosting bats can also be affected. Where the Newt Conservation Partnership will plant habitats for the amphibians, she will have to adhere to a'strict Licensing Sceme'.

For World Book Day, an artificial intelligence (AI) device has reimagined some of literature's most popular homes. These include Pemberley House, Mr Darcy's luxurious estate in 'Pride and Prejudice,' as well as the home of the world's most popular detective, Sherlock Holmes. Hammonds Furniture's book enthusiasts brought fictional homes to life using the text-to-image editor Midjourney. Book lovers at Hammonds Furniture used the text-to-image software Midjourney to bring the fictional homes to life in celebration of World Book Day 2023 - but how many of them can you guess?

GRIFF RHYS JONES: The scene is set, not by the glare of the ubiquitous sodium street lamp, more reminiscent of a modern dual carriageway than Victorian London, but not by a gas lamp. These iron sentries, with their warm embracing glow, serve as guardians of a lost time. In my case, after the theatre, their effect is a magical walk home at night. You're suddenly sharing a city with Oscar Wilde, Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, or Peter Pan author James Barrie. And we're all tourists passing through an enduring metropolis, despite the clamour of the here and now. Westminster Council is the exception, not Westminster. Gas lamps are not a romantic reminder of the 19th century's to be treasured, but they are far from glamorous monstrosities. They want to pinch the fire of all 275 gas lanterns for which the council is responsible in London's capital.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's former home is up for auction for £2.95 million. Sir Arthur used the eight-bedroom house as a countryside retreat after he bought it for wife Jean. The couple loved staying at the sprawling estate nestled in six acres of land from 1924 to his death in 1930. The house, which also features ten reception rooms, is now available to Sherlock fans to get a piece of history near the village of Minstead, Hampshire. Sir Arthur discovered the property while researching for his book The White Company - and the nearby New Forest depicts the tale's location. The exterior of the house features period beams, while statement fireplaces and ceiling beams can be found inside.

At Green Hill Farm Holiday Village in Wiltshire, Jo Tweedy and her family are kept in a luxury safari tent. 'I could live here,' she admits. They explore the area by foot and by electric bikes, biking along a trail in Bolderwood woodland, and stopping for food in Minstead, where Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is buried. The New Forest is a '56,000-hectare English adventure playground,' she says.