This 1930 photo shows Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author and creator of Sherlock Holmes. Writer Leslie Klinger is challenging the Conan Doyle Estate, LTD over the right to use the Sherlock Holmes ...

There’s no question that Holmes and Watson are highly complex characters. Conan Doyle produced a total of four Sherlock Holmes novels and 56 stories between 1887 and 1927.

Other writers, however, insert Holmes and Watson into actual textbook history. In this approach, the pair interacts with known people of the time, such as Oscar Wilde, Lillie Langtry or Sigmund ...

Star Trek’s Spock has always been a master of analytical reasoning, and now we know why. It happens in a scene where Spock ...

"Sherlock Holmes made his name, but Conan Doyle wanted to do something of a landmark scale that wasn’t Holmes. [As a story], it just goes on and on.

At once a nemesis, rival and muse for Holmes, Adler was a character ahead of her time in the 19th century, and she remains a fascinating, layered one today.

July 16, 2015 Giles Keyte/Roadside Attractions Sherlock Holmes holds the record for being the most frequently portrayed character in fiction, with more than 250 TV and movie credits to his name.

Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery runs at Stage West until April 15, 2018. 3.5 stars out of 5 ...

I don’t think anyone has ever come up with a word to describe an authorized author. It’s not quite a tautology. The writer, who has been invited to write a novel continuing the body of work of ...