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Arts feature

Why Sir Arthur Conan Doyle believed in fairies

27 July 2024

9:00 AM

27 July 2024

9:00 AM

Sherlock Holmes fans will be delighted to know that there is a new play featuring the great man. In it Holmes, 72, bored silly by retirement and bee-keeping in the Sussex Downs, is back living at his old haunt of 221B Baker Street and  reunited with the widowed Watson. The case that lands in Holmes’s lap concerns a reported outbreak of fairies in the Bradford area.

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