Conan Doyle Convention in Birmingham on 30th May, £15 tickets still remaining.
* Tom Ue, giving a talk on Professor Challenger.
* Panel: “Exploring Doyle’s Worlds: Sherlock vs Challenger” (Michael R. Brush, Steve Lockley, Jan Edwards, Tom Ue).
* Book Launches: Challenger Unbound (anthology of Challenger adventures), Mycroft & The Necromancer.
* Panel: Steampunk vs Historical Fiction: What did the Victorians Ever Inspire Us To? (Rhys Hughes, S. G. Mullholland).
* ‘Don’t Go Into the Cellar’ presents the 90 minute play: ‘The Singular Exploits of Sherlock Holmes’.
“I should wish nothing better than to have some more of such experiences.” [said Holmes]
“To-day, for example?”
“Yes, to-day, if you like.”
“And as far off as Birmingham?”
“Certainly, if you wish it.”
— from the Sherlock Holmes adventure “The Adventure of the Stockbroker’s Clerk”, set in Birmingham’s Corporation St.