It should come as no surprise that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of legendary sleuth Sherlock Holmes, was something of an amateur detective himself.
The book Conan Doyle, Detective by Peter Costello explores the many actual investigations he involved himself with including Jack the Ripper, Dr. Crippen and, interestingly enough, the brief disappearance of Agatha Christie in 1916.
Doyle, an ardent spiritualist, employed a medium in his Christie investigation.
His own involvement in the supernatural stands in stark contrast to the harsh rational and scientific methods employed by his fictional detective.
There are a number of novels that feature Doyle as a character, the most recent of which is David Pirie’s The Dark Water, an eerie mystery set in a small seaside town rumored to be haunted by a legendary witch.
