A macabre delight. Adrian Conan Doyle, the author’s youngest son, has been described by Doyle’s biographer Andrew Lycett as a “spendthrift playboy [who] used the Conan Doyle estate as a ...

Today, nearly seventy years after his death, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is universally associated with his most popular literary creation, Sherlock Holmes. In fact, the hyper-rational detective is ...