Sherlock Holmes' brilliantly drawn arch-nemesis was based on a real-life criminal mastermind, reveals author GARETH RUBIN as ...

Adaptations of Holmes stories are exploding now that the detective is in the public domain. Critics believe it should have ...

As part of ‘The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes,’ this episode examines business ethics and ethical leadership of a corporate compliance function. The story offers a unique, Holmes-centric ...

He was the mysterious and ruthless ‘Napoleon of crime’ in the Sherlock Holmes novels by Scots author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. But now a leading Scottish scholar has claimed the true identity of ...

Sherry Thomas is back with another Lady Sherlock novel. “A Ruse of Shadows” takes place immediately after the last novel, “A Tempest at Sea.” The novel begins with Charlotte Holmes being ...

Every January 1 in the Books department, we like to make an extra toast for a concurrent holiday: Public Domain Day.

The “St. Luke Mystery,” a sensational, real-life case ... in the text. 10. Sherlock Holmes's cases are not true crime stories. Conan Doyle’s historical novels were meticulously researched.

It is a real beauty," and then he also says ... but eventually, in 1921, he went back to Baker Street and began "The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes," the final 12 stories.