Arthur Conan Doyle

Red-Headed, or Red-Handed? 19thc bank robberies in fact and fiction

Anyone familiar with the Sherlock Holmes stories has read, or at least heard of, “The Red-Headed League.”  The story was published in The Strand Magazine’s August 1891 issue, and later collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892). Be the first to like. Like Unlike

My guest blog for Author Piper Bayard: “The Fracturing of Empire”

Instead of my usual “Flashback Friday,” I was honored to be a guest blogger for the uber-talented Piper Bayard: The fracturing of Empire: two perspectives on the 2nd Boer War     Piper’s blogging partner, Holmes, has provided a wonderfully in-depth historical account of the second Boer War (1899-1902).  As a former 19th century British Lit(…)