BOYS WILL BE BOYS (269 pp.)—E. S. Turner—Michael Joseph (10/6). “Literature,” said G. K. Chesterton, “is a luxury; fiction is a necessity . . . The simple need for some kind of ideal ...

October 2017 marks the 125th anniversary of the first Holmes novel, “A Study in Scarlet”—and since then, the word “mystery” has invariably evoked Sherlock Holmes.

"A Study in Scarlet" was written in only three weeks, and was published in 1886. What is strange is that you would think Holmes' drug use more of a problem than religion.

The unsolved 1996 murder of 6-year-old US beauty pageant contestant Jon Benét Ramsey has been the subject of more than a dozen crime books: the 1998 bestseller Perfect Murder, Perfect Town by ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Sherlock and Watson: A Study in Scarlet Step in the shoes of Sherlock Holmes or Dr. Watson and venture on a journey filled with intrigue and mystery ...

The Sister had a bright red gown, indicating her field of study, the kind I had always envied. I put on the gown and joined the procession, wondering what my life would have looked like if I had found ...

Sherry Thomas' new novel presents a gender-flipped Sherlock Holmes tale, with a heroine who must battle not only the bad guys but also the Victorian era's unfair restrictions on women's lives.

A study in scarlet An image from the European Southern Observatory reveals a cloud of hydrogen called Gum 41, which is one small part of a bigger structure called the Lambda Centauri Nebula.