“Why are seals the most holy of animals? Because it is mentioned in the Apocalypse that at the last day an angel shall open six of them in heaven.” Arthur Conan Doyle recorded this joke in his private ...

Arthur Conan Doyle. Edited by Jon Lellenberg and Daniel Stashower. Univ. of Chicago, $35 (368p) ISBN 978-0-226-00905-6 Even if this diary of the 19th-century whaling ship Hope's Arctic exploits didn't ...

In 1880, Arthur Conan Doyle took a six-month leave from medical school to work as a ship’s surgeon on an Arctic whaling expedition. The trip fueled his ambitions as a writer, and he called on his ...

Knowing that he was the creator of Sherlock Holmes, you might think Doyle is referring to the thick London fog drifting outside the windows of 221B Baker Street. But this sentence was written years ...

Simon & Schuster UK has entered into an official collaboration with the Conan Doyle Estate on a programme of new and backlist titles following on from their recent collaboration, Holmes & Moriarty by ...

7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner rejects the distinction between "complex" and "flat" characters if it means "nearly perpetual copyright." By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large On appeal, the ...

EXCLUSIVE: Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss has adapted a short story from the detective’s creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, as his annual Christmas ghost story for the BBC. Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) ...

A film about Sherlock Holmes' later life allegedly infringes works about the detective still in copyright. By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large On Thursday, a copyright and trademark lawsuit ...

Indian National Award-winning helmer Srijit Mukherji (“Chotushkone”) will direct a British-Indian co-production on Arthur ...

On Wednesday, it was revealed that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's estate is suing Netflix for copyright infringement over the Enola Holmes film, set to premiere on the streaming service this September.