This Thursday marks the 166th birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the most famous detective in literary history, Sherlock Holmes. Edgar Allen Poe more or less invented the modern genre ...

It was in the Strand magazine that most of the 56 Holmes stories were published, and made famous, and Ms. Worsley follows ...

For years I have been hearing about detective stories. Almost everybody I know seems to read them, and they have long conversations about them in which I am unable to take part. I am always being ...

A dubious piece of American pop culture history comes to light in the August 9, 2010 New Yorker magazine, as historian Jill Lepore examines the phenomenon of Charlie Chan, the fictional ...

May 22 is Sherlock Holmes Day, which was also the birthday of Holmes' creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Here are 10 little-known facts about the world's most famous detective.

One of the most famous scenes in the Sherlock Holmes stories occurs in Switzerland, where Holmes fans still gather to re-enact the detective's tussle with his nemesis, Moriarty. It is 125 years ...

Chandler, best remembered for his hard-boiled detective novels, also wrote poetry. The poem, “Requiem,” was among papers his family donated to the University of Oxford in the 1980s.