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Mark Gatiss is continuing the seasonal ghost story tradition with an Arthur Conan Doyle adaptation, starring Kit Harington and Freddie Fox

Suranne Jones comes up for air; The Crown limps home with a final flourish; Lucy Worsley turns sleuth on Conan Doyle; and Paul Burrell and co bare all

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The intense new series of Vigil arrives at last. Plus: a wild night with Kylie Minogue, Alison Hammond and Andrew Scott. Here’s what to watch this evening

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.

Murder mystery navigates its way through a century of detective influences, from Conan Doyle to Gillian Flynn

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

Each is a powerful experience and we need to be explicitly weaned away every time from this world of suspended disbelief