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The Doyly Planet Newsletter — 8 October 2026

Theater
The Cottingley Fairies
return to the stage…
with Conan Doyle


The Curious Case of the Cottingley Fairies, a play by Claire Wittman that premiered in 2023, is returning to the stage in a new production by the NOVA Nightsky Theater in Virginia, USA. It brings to life one of the most famous cases in the history of spiritualism, featuring Arthur Conan Doyle among the characters...

IN THE OCTOBER 8TH EDITION
• The Curious Case of the Cottingley Fairies

EVENTS OF THE DAY:
• Births of James Coombes and Ian Hart
• Deaths of Nigel Bruce and Gianni Bonagura.

And the Scholars' Quiz:
In "The Adventure of the Red Circle," Holmes's client,
Mrs. Warren, is hosting a mysterious lodger.
In which other case is Holmes also engaged by a landlady?
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27 June 2026

An introduction to Holmesology, the "Great Game".

The term "Holmesology" covers the whole body of scholarly and useless research devoted to the sixty stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle recounting the adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

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26 August 2026

Sherlock Holmes, king on screens. Cinema, TV, computer...

Did you know that the Czechoslovak actor Martin Frič played Sherlock Holmes in 1932 in a French Sherlock Holmes motion picture titled "Le Roi Bis"? Discover this "forgotten" movie...

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Example 3
14 August 2026

Real-world investigations on the trail of Sherlock Holmes

For decades, at 221 Baker Street, secretaries answered mail addressed to Sherlock Holmes by readers who believed he was real. A guided tour of a parallel universe...

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22 August 2026

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, his life, his work and Sherlock Holmes

"The Hound of the Baskervilles" is Conan Doyle's most famous novel, but who is Bertram Fletcher Robinson? Who came up with the idea for this hellhound? And how did Holmes rise from the grave to conduct the investigation?

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