Conan Doyle's Casebook

29/06/2026

Don't forget to book your Worldwide Doyle tickets: wegottickets.com/f/22404 for Ollie Randall's talk 'Doyle and Cricket: A Passion for the Game'

1 July at 7pm (UK time)!🏏🏏🏏

To an extent that is rarely recognised, cricket played a central part in Arthur Conan Doyle's life. It played an important part in his public persona, his relationships, his self-image, and even his creativity. Dr Ollie Randall demonstrates the ways in which cricket can shed light on Doyle, his life...

24/06/2026

Ollie Randall is our final speaker for Worldwide Doyle:

Doyle and Cricket: A Passion for the Game

To an extent that is rarely recognised, cricket played a central part in Arthur Conan Doyle's life. It played an important part in his public persona, his relationships, his self-image, and even his creativity. Dr Ollie Randall demonstrates the ways in which cricket can shed light on Doyle, his life and his work.

Come and join us on the 1st July at 7pm!

22/06/2026

Don't forget to book your tickets for Anna Behrens talk tomorrow night! https://wegottickets.com/f/22401

We are looking for ward to Anna Behrens talk on the 23 June at 7pm (UK time)

Jean Leckie From Mistress to Medium

Arthur Conan Doyle was immediately attracted to young and attractive Miss Jean Leckie, whom he met at a party while his wife Louisa was bedridden with advanced Tuberculosis. Conan Doyle and Jean grew close and secretly spent time together. When Louisa died years later, Conan Doyle married Jean and they had three children together. Jean changed from a non-believer of Spiritualism to becoming the family Medium. She then, through a spirit guide named Pheneas, advised Conan Doyle on many aspects of his life. Just how far did Lady Jean go in manipulating her besotted husband?

17/06/2026

Ollie Randall is our speaker for Worldwide Doyle, Ollie is a writer and historian. He is the author of Writers in Whites: How a group of literary cricketers changed English culture (Fairfield Books, May 2026). He completed his PhD, on coteries of cricket-playing writers, at King's College London. Ollie's second book, Lord's and Maharajas, about the turbulent politics surrounding the birth of Indian international cricket, is due out in the autumn. He also works as a cartoonist and a manager of cultural tours.

Join Ollie for his talk: Doyle and Cricket: A Passion for the Game, 1st July at 7pm! Link here for tickets: wegottickets.com/f/22404

16/06/2026

Anna Brindisi Behrens is our first Worldwide Doyle speaker this year. Anna is the leader of the Monadnock Sherlockians, an active scion based in Keene, NH. Anna received the 2023 Susan Z. Diamond Award from the Beacon Society. Anna is currently serving as the society's secretary (Percy Phelps). Anna enjoys writing Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes scholarship and has been published in The Baker Street Journal, in Canadian Holmes, in the Steel True, Blade Straight Anthology, as well as other publications. She edits her own scion’s Monadnock Sherlockian Anthologies, which contain collected writings from her group members. In addition to her Sherlockian interests, Anna is the producer of the Lizzie Borden Podcast, and has her own imprint Nine Muses Books, where she has published her late husband Richard’s Lizzie Borden Girl Detective Mysteries. She also edits the literary journal Literary Hatchet.

Catch Anna's talk 'Jean Leckie From Mistress to Medium' on 23 June at 7pm (UK time) Link for tickets here: wegottickets.com/f/22401

09/06/2026

We are looking for ward to Anna Behrens talk on the 23 June at 7pm (UK time)

Jean Leckie From Mistress to Medium

Arthur Conan Doyle was immediately attracted to young and attractive Miss Jean Leckie, whom he met at a party while his wife Louisa was bedridden with advanced Tuberculosis. Conan Doyle and Jean grew close and secretly spent time together. When Louisa died years later, Conan Doyle married Jean and they had three children together. Jean changed from a non-believer of Spiritualism to becoming the family Medium. She then, through a spirit guide named Pheneas, advised Conan Doyle on many aspects of his life. Just how far did Lady Jean go in manipulating her besotted husband?

04/06/2026

SAVE THE DATES! We are back for another Doylian adventure!

Tuesday 23rd June 7pm (UK time)
Anna Behrens - Jean Leckie from Mistress to Medium

Wednesday 1st July 7pm (UK time)
Ollie Randall - Doyle and Cricket: A Passion for the Game

21/05/2026

Hello Strangers, so sorry for such a long pause!

Have you seen our latest blog? A little light Bank Holiday (UK) reading! 🕵🖊🤩

https://www.conandoylecollection.com/conan-doyle/blog/read/2026/05/stars-in-their-eyes-b157