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The ACD Society: A community dedicated to studying and enjoying the works of Arthur Conan Doyle. Website: http://acdsociety.com.
The race to the finish for Doylean Honors nominations! Nov. 30 is the deadline for ACD Society members to nominate new (202425) Doylean works in 4 categories:
Fiction & Poetry
Performing Arts
Scholarly Writing
Visual Arts
Forms/instructions (simple and easy) here: acdsociety.com/Honors/Honor...
Fiction & Poetry
Performing Arts
Scholarly Writing
Visual Arts
Forms/instructions (simple and easy) here: acdsociety.com/Honors/Honor...
November 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The race to the finish for Doylean Honors nominations! Nov. 30 is the deadline for ACD Society members to nominate new (202425) Doylean works in 4 categories:
Fiction & Poetry
Performing Arts
Scholarly Writing
Visual Arts
Forms/instructions (simple and easy) here: acdsociety.com/Honors/Honor...
Fiction & Poetry
Performing Arts
Scholarly Writing
Visual Arts
Forms/instructions (simple and easy) here: acdsociety.com/Honors/Honor...
The latest A Common Newsletter is out, with Anna Brindisi Behrens's "Mad-Doctors" article for Margie Deck and Nancy Holder's "Terror of Blue John Gap" project, and much more (including Doylean Honors, Wessex Cup, membership renewal, and Glen Miranker's Sign of Four MS). acdsociety.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The latest A Common Newsletter is out, with Anna Brindisi Behrens's "Mad-Doctors" article for Margie Deck and Nancy Holder's "Terror of Blue John Gap" project, and much more (including Doylean Honors, Wessex Cup, membership renewal, and Glen Miranker's Sign of Four MS). acdsociety.com
Details coming soon.
November 3, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Details coming soon.
It’s Doylean Honors Season Again! It’s time to nominate your favorite recent works of Doylean fiction, poetry, visual art, and scholarship for the ACD Society’s annual awards. Nomination forms are here: acdsociety.com/Honors/Honors.htm. The deadline for nominations is Nov. 30, so please do it soon!
October 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
It’s Doylean Honors Season Again! It’s time to nominate your favorite recent works of Doylean fiction, poetry, visual art, and scholarship for the ACD Society’s annual awards. Nomination forms are here: acdsociety.com/Honors/Honors.htm. The deadline for nominations is Nov. 30, so please do it soon!
Norwegian Explorer Melissa Aho has discovered a Sherlockian Dancing Man in St. Paul. See number 44 on the updated Dancing Man map. Thank you Melissa!
September 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Norwegian Explorer Melissa Aho has discovered a Sherlockian Dancing Man in St. Paul. See number 44 on the updated Dancing Man map. Thank you Melissa!
The 2025 Baker Street Almanac is finally set for mailing next week (with a small companion), due to the efforts of many fine Sherlockians (bless you and thank you, every one!), especially Pamela Sullivan, Ira Matetsky, Rich Krisciunas,Mike McSwiggin, Sue and Ben Vizoskie, and Harrison Terry Hunt!
August 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The 2025 Baker Street Almanac is finally set for mailing next week (with a small companion), due to the efforts of many fine Sherlockians (bless you and thank you, every one!), especially Pamela Sullivan, Ira Matetsky, Rich Krisciunas,Mike McSwiggin, Sue and Ben Vizoskie, and Harrison Terry Hunt!
The nationwide search for the Collier's Dancing Men in 1903 newspapers continues, and so do the discoveries. Congratulations to Bruce Harris, who has added the Louisville Times (home of Dancing Man number XXXIX) to the map.
August 16, 2025 at 12:53 AM
The nationwide search for the Collier's Dancing Men in 1903 newspapers continues, and so do the discoveries. Congratulations to Bruce Harris, who has added the Louisville Times (home of Dancing Man number XXXIX) to the map.
Margie Deck and Nancy Holder are back with more Terror. Max Magee is the authorial star of this installment of “The Terror of Blue John Gap,” with annotations for pages 1 and 11. Visit both pages for some terrifying illumination! acdsociety.com
August 12, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Margie Deck and Nancy Holder are back with more Terror. Max Magee is the authorial star of this installment of “The Terror of Blue John Gap,” with annotations for pages 1 and 11. Visit both pages for some terrifying illumination! acdsociety.com
Next Wed. at 2pm ET, Cliff Goldfarb will present "If Arthur Conan Doyle Met Charles Dickens" as part of Portsmouth Libraries' Worldwide Doyle lecture series. Don't miss this fine scholar and speaker on this intriguing (and, surely, entertaining) topic! Register free: wegottickets.com/event/660553
June 7, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Next Wed. at 2pm ET, Cliff Goldfarb will present "If Arthur Conan Doyle Met Charles Dickens" as part of Portsmouth Libraries' Worldwide Doyle lecture series. Don't miss this fine scholar and speaker on this intriguing (and, surely, entertaining) topic! Register free: wegottickets.com/event/660553
Worldwide Doyle is back! It is time for the Portsmouth Library's annual Doylean lecture series. Zoom in for free on June 5, 11, and 25, and July 3.
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May 31, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Worldwide Doyle is back! It is time for the Portsmouth Library's annual Doylean lecture series. Zoom in for free on June 5, 11, and 25, and July 3.
wegottickets.com/event/660551
wegottickets.com/event/660553
wegottickets.com/event/660554
wegottickets.com/event/660557
acdsociety.com
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The Bimetallic Question's "All of Doyle" discussion group will focus on Switzerland on May 13 at 7pm ET. Learn more here: acdsociety.com
April 11, 2025 at 3:47 AM
The Bimetallic Question's "All of Doyle" discussion group will focus on Switzerland on May 13 at 7pm ET. Learn more here: acdsociety.com
@margiedeck.bsky.social & Nancy Holder are back with another page in The Terror of Blue John Gap Project: "we find ourselves with an abundance of new commentators to enlighten us about this page of Doyle’s manuscript and, indeed, about a great deal more." See "page 10" for Terror! acdsociety.com
April 7, 2025 at 12:48 AM
@margiedeck.bsky.social & Nancy Holder are back with another page in The Terror of Blue John Gap Project: "we find ourselves with an abundance of new commentators to enlighten us about this page of Doyle’s manuscript and, indeed, about a great deal more." See "page 10" for Terror! acdsociety.com
We announced the 2025 Doylean Honorees last Thursday at The Mysterious Bookshop in NYC. For a complete list of the honorees, visit acdsociety.com. Pictured here are Crystal Noll and Heather Holloway presenting an award to Hal Glatzer, and Derrick Belanger presenting to Nicholas Meyer.
January 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
We announced the 2025 Doylean Honorees last Thursday at The Mysterious Bookshop in NYC. For a complete list of the honorees, visit acdsociety.com. Pictured here are Crystal Noll and Heather Holloway presenting an award to Hal Glatzer, and Derrick Belanger presenting to Nicholas Meyer.
The front page of the latest issue of The New Pink 'Un.
January 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The front page of the latest issue of The New Pink 'Un.
Congrats to Doylean Honors “Visual Arts” finalists Molly Knox Ostertag, Erica Gosich Rose, Fatspatrol, Tony Winterbottom, Heidi Berton, and Megan Oldhuges. Winners will be announced at @TheMysterious on Jan. 16. Details here: acdsociety.com/Honors/Honor...
January 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Congrats to Doylean Honors “Visual Arts” finalists Molly Knox Ostertag, Erica Gosich Rose, Fatspatrol, Tony Winterbottom, Heidi Berton, and Megan Oldhuges. Winners will be announced at @TheMysterious on Jan. 16. Details here: acdsociety.com/Honors/Honor...
Finalists in the “Scholarly Writing” category for Doylean Honors are Anne Chapman, Jonathan Cranfield, Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko, David L. Leal, Roger Luckhurst, Ollie Randall, and Douglas R.J. Small. Congratulations to all! Winners will be announced on Jan. 16. Details: acdsociety.com/Honors/Honor...
December 30, 2024 at 10:41 PM
Finalists in the “Scholarly Writing” category for Doylean Honors are Anne Chapman, Jonathan Cranfield, Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko, David L. Leal, Roger Luckhurst, Ollie Randall, and Douglas R.J. Small. Congratulations to all! Winners will be announced on Jan. 16. Details: acdsociety.com/Honors/Honor...
Our new issue of "The New Pink 'Un" (acdsociety.com/pinkun/pinku...). Has details about the Jan. 16 running of the Wessex Cup, including reflections on the new horses by equestrian outfitter extraordinaire Peggy MacFarlane, a complete bracket, and more. Details: acdsociety.com/Honors/Honor...
December 26, 2024 at 5:18 AM
Our new issue of "The New Pink 'Un" (acdsociety.com/pinkun/pinku...). Has details about the Jan. 16 running of the Wessex Cup, including reflections on the new horses by equestrian outfitter extraordinaire Peggy MacFarlane, a complete bracket, and more. Details: acdsociety.com/Honors/Honor...
Wessex Cup update from Peggy MacFarlane: "Unfortunate Pony is taking no chances this year. She is sporting a host of talismans against the Evil Eye, now believed to be the cause of her repeated prior losses. U.P. Has her eyes on the prize. Are you ready?" Details here: acdsociety.com
December 8, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Wessex Cup update from Peggy MacFarlane: "Unfortunate Pony is taking no chances this year. She is sporting a host of talismans against the Evil Eye, now believed to be the cause of her repeated prior losses. U.P. Has her eyes on the prize. Are you ready?" Details here: acdsociety.com
They're off! Which means they're on -- sale, that is. Six stables for the Jan. 16 running of the Wessex Cup at @mysteriousbookshop.com. Pony decorated by equestrian outfitter extraordinaire Peggy MacFarlane. Stables available only to ACD Society members until Dec. 15. acdsociety.com/Cup/Stables2...
December 4, 2024 at 1:14 PM
They're off! Which means they're on -- sale, that is. Six stables for the Jan. 16 running of the Wessex Cup at @mysteriousbookshop.com. Pony decorated by equestrian outfitter extraordinaire Peggy MacFarlane. Stables available only to ACD Society members until Dec. 15. acdsociety.com/Cup/Stables2...
Equestrian Doyleans, get ready to register, because the open season on Wessex Cup stables will be here soon.
December 2, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Equestrian Doyleans, get ready to register, because the open season on Wessex Cup stables will be here soon.
Just a glimpse, in the dim evening light, of one of the new Wessex Cup ponies tentatively trundling along the track ...
December 1, 2024 at 4:04 AM
Just a glimpse, in the dim evening light, of one of the new Wessex Cup ponies tentatively trundling along the track ...
The new issue of "A Common Newsletter" (v4n3) is in the mail, with news of our Jan. 16 Doylean Honors and Wessex Cup event at The Mysterious Bookshop, plus Blue John Gap, ghosts, and more. Details, with free online registration for the Doylean Honors / Wessex Cup, are on our website: acdsociety.com.
November 30, 2024 at 10:05 PM
The new issue of "A Common Newsletter" (v4n3) is in the mail, with news of our Jan. 16 Doylean Honors and Wessex Cup event at The Mysterious Bookshop, plus Blue John Gap, ghosts, and more. Details, with free online registration for the Doylean Honors / Wessex Cup, are on our website: acdsociety.com.