This episode, we welcome to the podcast Professor Roger Luckhurst to talk about his new edition of Round the Red Lamp (1894) for the Edinburgh University Press, and plenty of Gothic too. About Roger Luckhurst Roger Luckhurst is the Geoffrey Tillotson Chair of Nineteenth-Century Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of ten mono…

This episode, we discuss one of Conan Doyle’s little-known post-war stories, ‘The Nightmare Room’ from 1921. Read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Nightmare_Room Listen to an audiobook reading by Greg Wagland here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFZwsEE8ua8 The episode will be uploaded to our YouTube channel soon, w…

Welcome to Episode 50! This month, we look at a deeply personal work that Conan Doyle suppressed for almost thirty years before reissuing in heavily redacted form, ‘The Surgeon of Gaster Fell’ from 1890. You can the original 1890 version here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Surgeon_of_Gaster_Fell Or listen to a Librivox recording …

Hello and welcome to Episode 49. This month, we look at a classic Conan Doyle short story, one the author felt was “gloomy but of [his] best” - ‘The Pot of Caviare’ from 1908. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Pot_of_Caviare Or listen to an audio recording by Greg Wagland here: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

This episode, we travel to the Scottish borders at the end of the Napoleonic Wars for Conan Doyle’s 1892 novella The Great Shadow. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Great_Shadow Listen to the podcast below or at the Podcaster of your choice. Read the show notes here. The episode will be released on our Yo…

This episode, we break from our usual format to take a look at the last twelve months in the Doylean universe and make some recommendations of adaptations, events, and publications you may have missed. Apologies to anyone we have left out. So much happened last year, it was hard to keep track! If you know of something we have overlooked, please giv…

This episode, we return to a different incarnation of Goresthorpe Grange in ‘Selecting A Ghost’ from December 1883. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/Selecting_a_Ghost And read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2023/12/46-selecting-ghost-ghosts-of.html. Listen to the podcast on your podcaster…

This episode, we discuss what is believed to be the first story Conan Doyle submitted to a publisher, ‘The Haunted Grange of Goresthorpe’ (c.1877). You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Haunted_Grange_of_Goresthorpe This episode will also be released on our Youtube channel, www.youtube.com/@doingsofdoyle. Clo…

This episode, we welcome to the podcast author, journalist, and biographer Andrew Lycett to talk about his latest book, The Worlds of Sherlock Holmes, released in October 2023. The Worlds of Sherlock Holmes (2023) Questing was Sherlock Holmes’s business. He famously adopted the latest forensic techniques, channelled the Victorian passion for enquir…

This episode, we return to Baker Street at the same time as Sherlock Holmes. It’s ‘The Adventure of the Empty House’ from September 1903. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Adventure_of_the_Empty_House An audiobook version read by Greg Wagland can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Hj_bi9Qto …

This episode, we welcome to the podcast biographer Sarah LeFanu whose wonderful book Something of Themselves: Kipling, Kingsley, Conan Doyle and the Anglo-Boer War was released in 2020. About Sarah LeFanu Sarah lives near Bristol in North Somerset and is a biographer whose subjects include the English writer and traveller Rose Macaulay; Samora Mach…

This episode, we get wrapped up in Conan Doyle’s Mummytastic horror classic, ‘Lot No 249’ (1892). You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/Lot_No._249 An audiobook version read by Greg Wagland can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5A89sKeMGM Read the show notes here: https://bit.ly/DOD41sn You can list…

This episode, we return to Brigadier Etienne Gerard of the Hussars of the Conflans shortly after his escape from Dartmoor Prison for more mishaps and misadventures in ‘The Brigadier in England’ (1903). You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Brigadier_in_England Read the show notes. Listen to the episode here: …

This episode, we welcome to the podcast Jonathan Cranfield, Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Liverpool John Moores University, in the United Kingdom, and editor of Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes for the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle. You can find the book here: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-…

This episode, we explore Conan Doyle's life-long fascination with true crime through his 'Strange Studies from Life', dramatic retellings of nineteenth century murder trials, published in the Strand in 1901. You can read the stories here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Holocaust_of_Manor_Place https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/in…

This episode, we travel above the clouds in the company of hot-headed aeronaut Joyce-Armstrong in ‘The Horror of the Heights', from November 1913. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Horror_of_the_Heights Or hear an audio book version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1mV3iOfUT0 And read the show notes…

This episode, we are delighted to welcome to the podcast Linda Bailey and Isabelle Follath, respectively the author and illustrator of Arthur Who Wrote Sherlock (2023), a new children’s biography of Conan Doyle. You can find out more about the book here: https://www.andersenpress.co.uk/books/arthur-who-wrote-sherlock/ A closed-caption version of th…

This episode, we join a cast of Conan Doyle’s literary heroes in his amusing short story, ‘A Literary Mosaic,’ also known as ‘Cyprian Overbeck Wells,’ which first appeared in December 1886. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/Cyprian_Overbeck_Wells._A_Literary_Mosaic A closed-caption version of the episode will…

This episode, we travel to Switzerland with Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson for a showdown with the fiendish Professor Moriarty in ‘The Adventure of the Final Problem’ (1893). You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/The_Adventure_of_the_Final_Problem You can hear a reading by Greg Wagland here: https://www.youtube.co…

This episode, we are delighted to welcome to the podcast multi-award-winning crime novelist and President of the Detection Club, Martin Edwards, to talk about Conan Doyle and crime fiction. You can read the shownotes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/12/33-conan-doyle-and-crime-fiction-with.html Biography of Martin Edwards Martin Edwards is …

This episode, we get in training to face Silas Craggs in Conan Doyle’s boxing story ‘The Croxley Master’ from 1899. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Croxley_Master And read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/11/32-croxley-master-1899.html For an introduction to Conan Doyle and …

This episode, we join an expectant father as he pensively awaits the arrival of his first born, in ‘The Curse of Eve’, one of Conan Doyle’s Round the Red Lamp stories. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Curse_of_Eve Or listen to a Librivox recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZevaD0khms (…

This episode, we are delighted to be joined by Professor Douglas Kerr to talk about Conan Doyle’s fascinating and much overlooked autobiography Memories and Adventures, first published in 1924 and revised in 1930. You can read Memories and Adventures here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=Memories_and_Adventures And listen to the …

This episode, we travel back to where it all began with Conan Doyle’s first published work, ‘The Mystery of Sasassa Valley’ (1879). You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Mystery_of_Sasassa_Valley You can read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/08/29-mystery-of-sasassa-valley-1879.ht…

This time, we head to Regency England where a cunning French spy manipulates the outcome of the Peace of Amiens, in ‘A Foreign Office Romance’ (1894). You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=A_Foreign_Office_Romance And read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/07/28-foreign-office-romance-…

This episode, Paul and I are delighted to welcome to the podcast Dr Stephen Carver, author, biographer and recipient of one of the ACD Society’s Inaugural Doylean Honours for his excellent Wordsworth Editions blog on the Professor Challenger stories. We talk with Stephen about the appeal of Professor Challenger to readers and to Conan Doyle, The La…

This time we travel to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in search of new creatures and encounter ancient ones in The Maracot Deep (1929), Conan Doyle’s last novel. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Maracot_Deep And read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/05/26-maracot-deep-1929.…

Hello and welcome to Episode 25. We’re back at Baker Street to drop in on Holmes and Watson for one of their more peculiar cases, ‘The Adventure of the Creeping Man’ from March 1923. You can read the story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Adventure_of_the_Creeping_Man Or listen to Greg Wagland’s reading here: https://www…

This episode, we're joined by Ross Davies and guests to talk about the new hub of Doylean activity that is the ACD Society. You can find out more about the ACD Society here: www.acdsociety.com The episode can be heard here: http://doingsofdoyle.podbean.com/. And you can read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2022/03/24-acd-society-…

This episode, we’re off to a German University town for a comic tale that draws on Conan Doyle’s school days and his early encounters with spiritualism - ‘The Great Keinplatz Experiment’ (1885). You can read the short story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Great_Keinplatz_Experiment The episode can be heard here: http://…

This episode, we head back into Gothic territory with a tale of cruelty and revenge set during the Franco-Prussian war, ‘The Lord of Chateau Noir’ from 1894. You can read the short story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Lord_of_Ch%C3%A2teau_Noir Or listen to Greg Wagland’s audiobook version here: https://www.youtube.com/…

This episode, we are joined by Dr Merrick Burrow, Head of English and Creative Writing at the University of Huddersfield, to talk about The Cottingley Fairies: A Study in Deception, an exhibition Merrick has curated for the Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery at the University of Leeds. You can visit the exhibition online here: https://library.leed…

This episode, we travel to nineteenth century Japan in the footsteps of one of Conan Doyle's childhood friends, and take part in a heist on the high seas in 'Jelland's Voyage' (1892). You can read the short story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=Jelland%27s_Voyage Or listen to Greg Wagland's excellent reading of the story he…

It’s Hallowe’en, so settle down by the fire, pour yourself a stiff drink, and get ready for a Conan Doyle ghost story, ‘The Silver Mirror,’ from August 1908. You can read the short story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Silver_Mirror And read the show notes here: https://www.doingsofdoyle.com/2021/10/19-silver-mirror-190…

This time we travel from Baker Street to Brook Street in the company of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in 'The Adventure of the Resident Patient' (1893), one of the later Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893). You can read the short story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Adventure_of_the_Resident_Patient Or listen to an a…

This episode, we enjoy a slice of Anglo-Indian gothic with Conan Doyle’s early short story Uncle Jeremy’s Household (1887), a tale with connections to a Doyle family mystery and a certain resident of Baker Street. You can read the short story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=Uncle_Jeremy%27s_Household Or listen to an audio n…

Hello and welcome to episode 16. This episode, Paul and I are delighted to welcome to the podcast journalist and author Shrabani Basu to talk about Conan Doyle, George Edalji and her new book The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer (Bloomsbury, 2021). In 1903, the quiet village of Great Wyrley near Birmingham is shocked by a spate of horrific horse maimin…

Episode 15 - We finally bring Brigadier Gerard to the podcast, with a discussion of two of his early exploits, 'How the Brigadier Held the King' and 'How the King Held the Brigadier' (1895). You can read the stories here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=How_the_Brigadier_Held_the_King; https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php…

Episode 14 - This time we trek through the caverns of the Peak District in search of a prehistoric monster in Conan Doyle's 1910 short story 'The Terror of Blue John Gap.' A little gem of a tale, it harks back to Conan Doyle's early gothic fiction while being a precursor to The Lost World (1912). You can read the novel here: https://www.arthur-cona…

The Refugees: A Tale of Two Continents,’Conan Doyle's fourth historical novel, was first published by Harper's Monthly Magazine in the first half of 1893. It explores the events surrounding Louis XIV's Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 and how this impacts on a small group of Huguenots who are sent, as Conan Doyle put it, “flying like leave…

This episode, we are delighted to welcome to the podcast Clifford S. Goldfarb, author of The Great Shadow (1997), to talk about Conan Doyle and Napoleon. As we mentioned in Episode 10, Conan Doyle had a life-long fascination with the Napoleonic era which began at his mother's knee, with tales of family members at Waterloo, and found its release in …

‘The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot,’ the third story in the collection His Last Bow, was first published by The Strand Magazine in 1910. A tale of death and diablerie in Cornwall, it harks back to some of Conan Doyle’s earlier works... You can read the short story here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Adventure_of_the_Devil%2…

Welcome to Episode 10. This time, we travel back to the 1890s to discuss Conan Doyle's short story 'A Straggler of '15' and its stage play version which came to be known simply as 'Waterloo' (first performed 1894). Plus we cover a cast of luminaries of the Victorian stage, including Henry Irving, Bram Stoker and George Bernard Shaw. You can read th…

Today, we join Otto Von Spee of Heidelberg for 'An Exciting Christmas Eve,' as he is duped into giving a lecture on dynamite... You can read the story here. You can read the show notes here. Acknowledgements Thanks to our sponsor, Belanger Books: www.belangerbooks.com Music credit: Sneaky Snitch Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creat…

Ahoy mateys! All aboard the Happy Delivery for a voyage to hell and back with Conan Doyle's unscrupulous pirate villain, the damnable Sharkey. You can read the stories here. You can read the show notes here. Acknowledgements Thanks to our sponsor, Belanger Books: www.belangerbooks.com Music credit: Sneaky Snitch Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Lic…

In this first interview show, we talk to Mark Albertstat, co-editor of Canadian Holmes, the journal of Sherlockian society The Bootmakers of Toronto, about Conan Doyle and his fascination with sport. The episode can be heard here: http://doingsofdoyle.podbean.com/. The show notes can be read here. Acknowledgements Thanks to our sponsor, Belanger Bo…

We enter dark waters this episode with The Case of Lady Sannox, Conan Doyle's Gothic masterpiece, written in 1893. A sinister incident leads to a beautiful socialite withdrawing from polite society and a celebrated surgeon losing his mind... You can read the story here. You can read the show notes here. Acknowledgements Thanks to our sponsor, Belan…

It's episode five and this time we're looking at The Story of the Man with the Watches and The Story of the Lost Special, two of Conan Doyle's Round the Fire stories written in 1898, and widely considered apocrypha of the Sherlock Holmes canon. To read the stories, click here and here. You can read the show notes here. Acknowledgements Thanks to ou…

This month we're talking about Danger! Being the Log of Captain John Sirius (1914), Conan Doyle's prophetic tale of submarine warfare published during the outbreak of the First World War. To read the story, click here. For show notes, visit the website. Acknowledgements Music credit: Sneaky Snitch Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Cre…

It's time for another episode. This month we talk about Doyle's classic ghost story, The Captain of the Pole-star (1883). To read the story, click here. For show notes, visit the website. Acknowledgements Music credit: Sneaky Snitch Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.…