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‘Doctor Who’ writer’s latest A Ghost Story For Christmas special is based on an 1892 short story by Arthur Conan Doyle

Ravenous mysteries and mind-boggling motives

Kit Harrington stars in this years A Ghost Story for Christmas. Here's how you can watch Lot No. 249 online and from anywhere.

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Author blamed literary success of the fictional detective for his highbrow historical novels ‘lying unread’

Killing Sherlock: Lucy Worsley On The Case Of Conan Doyle on BBC Two asks why the author grew to hate his famous sleuth.

In July 1923, the British author Arthur Conan Doyle arrived in Winnipeg to give a public lecture, “The Proofs of Immortality,” as part of a 40-city North American tour that attracted sizable audiences.

Agatha Christie published The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb in September 1923, almost a year after the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. Her Hercule Poirot short story drew inspiration from the sensationalised folklore of the “mummy’s curse”. Lord Carnarvon, sponsor of the excavation, had died…

Lucy Worsley will examine Arthur Conan Doyle's fraught relationship with his most famous creation, and one of his ghost stories will be dramatised with Kit Harington this Christmas

Late Rolling Stones drummer owned an impressive collection of rare and first edition books by crime fiction legends including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie

From safe speed limits to low-traffic neighbourhoods, the argument about how much we build the world around motorists has raged since the turn of the twentieth century - and is still gathering pace