January 21st 2027: a dark day for cover design!
Mark Jones
@drmjones.bsky.social
Sherlockian, Doylean, Ultracrepidarian. BSI, MBt, ASH classes of 2022. Commissioning Editor of the Sherlock Holmes Journal. Co-host of Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast www.doingsofdoyle.com.
A wonderful review of my forthcoming book SLEUTH-HOUND (out October 20) from a British indie bookshop, Tea Leaves & Reads 👇 "This is a thoroughly researched book that never feels heavy or academic." www.tealeavesandreads.co.uk/sleuth-hound...
Sleuth-Hound: The Real Case of Sherlock Holmes by Lindsey Fitzharris
From the bestselling author of The Butchering Art and The Facemaker comes the astonishing true story of Joseph Bell, the Scottish surgeon whose extraordinary talent for detection inspired Sherlock…
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Great day in Southport for the Angels of Mons exhibition at the Atkinson and the Arthur Machen event at the Bijou Theatre. Excellent job from @nunkie.bsky.social as compere and reader. Lovely to meet fellow Friends of the Arthur Machen Society. Thanks to the organisers.
Best death in the entire series - never knowingly undersold
archivetvmusings@archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 2w agoWhodunnit? - Last Tango In Tooting (25th July 1977). Nicholas Courtney gives his all on the dance floor.
Oooh - this is going to be worth checking out!
British Online Archives (BOA)@boapublishing.bsky.social · 2w agoNew primary source collection coming soon—The Strand Magazine, 1891–1930. Associated, famously, with Sherlock Holmes, The Strand became a British cultural institution, blending literary sophistication with broad, popular appeal. Learn more at buff.ly/99WFqyn.
Bloody hell, this game of Twister to decide the last Cabinet positions is taking its time…
Time to watch a couple of episodes of Eldorado in celebration #SPAARG
Saturday 26 July, 8pm(UK): a livestreamed telling of three short shorts by MRJ: "The Malice of Inanimate Objects", "After Dark in the Playing Fields" & "A Vignette." Register and pwyc here malice.eventbrite.co.uk illustration by Paul Lowe
chances to catch it this coming Thursday and Friday in Leeds and Newcastle. details here: www.nunkie.co.uk/schedule
Mark Jones@drmjones.bsky.social · 3w agoBrilliant show by @nunkie.bsky.social tonight - Hide, Watson! - two tales of Sherlock Holmes. Great performance and clever and amusing changes to the source material. Highly recommended!
Brilliant show by @nunkie.bsky.social tonight - Hide, Watson! - two tales of Sherlock Holmes. Great performance and clever and amusing changes to the source material. Highly recommended!
Just back from hols so I am probably the last person to receive the (slightly bigger) Summer #SherlockHolmes Journal, despite co-editing it! Anyway, I hope you have all received your copies and are enjoying it. Thanks as ever to our amazing contributors.
It's never to early to book your tickets for Nunkie's newest show: "Hide, Watson! Two Adventures by Arthur Conan Doyle" playing this July in Bath, York, Leeds and Newcastle. booking details here www.nunkie.co.uk/schedule
NEW EPISODE: J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement (1884) - ACD's breakthrough story about the mystery of the Marie Celeste. Chat about: the Cornhill, Stevenson and Hope Hodgson, Mary Celeste, the black stone, West Africa, racism and more. bit.ly/DOD075sn
Currently on BBC Sounds: Harriet Gilbert, @damedenisemina.bsky.social & @drmjones.bsky.social discuss arguably the most iconic & enduring novel in the Sherlock Holmes canon, THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, & examine Holmes’s lasting influence on #crimefiction 💙📚 4/ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
BBC World Service - World Book Club, Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles
Join Harriett for a special episode exploring the legacy of Sherlock Holmes.
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Gosh! Thats very generous! Thank you so much @futurerevisited.bsky.social!
Future Revisitations@futurerevisited.bsky.social · 3mo agoCelebrating the legacy of Arthur Conan Doyle, born OTD 1859. And to mark the occasion here’s a shout-out for this fabulous book by @drmjones.bsky.social on the superb 1967 BBC series ‘Conan Doyle’, which adapted many of Doyle’s best-loved tales. Easily one of my favourite archive TV reference books.
NOW ON YOUTUBE: Two bonus episodes: Bonus 1 - The Feldkirchian Gazette with Philipp Schöbi www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XBm... Bonus 2 - ACD and Literary Cricket, with Ollie Randall www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGku...
Amazing! I’d dearly love to see the last of the series, The Kiss of Blood, and this gives me the merest sliver of hope it might turn up one day.
Johnny Mains@johnnymains.co.uk · 3mo agoNO SUCH THING AS A VAMPIRE from LATE NIGHT HORROR has been found!!
Great talking to @ollie-randall.bsky.social who has written such an interesting book. www.patreon.com/posts/158252...
Bonus Episode: ACD and Literary Cricket, with Ollie Randall | Doings of Doyle - The Arthur Conan Doyle Podcast
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Doings of Doyle@doingsofdoyle.com · 3mo agoNew bonus episode is now available on Patreon for supporters on free and paid levels. @drmjones.bsky.social interviews @ollie-randall.bsky.social about his excellent new book ‘Writers in Whites’ about the literary cricketer circles. The podcast will be in the feed for all from Monday 18th.
"You say, Mr.Garrett, that the deceased gentleman appeared at the moment before his attack to be tearing a leaf out of this book?" 😱
Crumpled Linen Press@crumpledlinenpress.com · 3mo ago3 days to go! https://bit.ly/OhWhistle Reserve your copy of our annotated facsimile manuscript edition of M.R. James's classic ghost story 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' Down to the last signed and numbered editions
So looking forward to this.
Crumpled Linen Press@crumpledlinenpress.com · 3mo ago3 days to go! https://bit.ly/OhWhistle Reserve your copy of our annotated facsimile manuscript edition of M.R. James's classic ghost story 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' Down to the last signed and numbered editions
3 days to go! https://bit.ly/OhWhistle Reserve your copy of our annotated facsimile manuscript edition of M.R. James's classic ghost story 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' Down to the last signed and numbered editions
Today, Penguin have invited staff to have “Tea Time with Dr Fitzharris.” It’s like meeting Disney characters on a cruise, but more macabre with a twist of steampunk (see handbag) 😂
