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I like my Fridays to be fun. So here's another "Just For Fun" post that may tickle your fancy... (pun intended) Mustaches. They're trendy right now. Don't ask me why, but they are. And so I thought I'd do a little tribute to the 'stache right here. And since this is a book blog, we're comparing the mustaches of some famous children's book authors. Deal? Okay let's see what we got. 10. Rudyard Kipling Famous for The Jungle Book, I think he's trying to grow a jungle on his face. I can't tell…

01. Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays Sherlock Holmes on "Sherlock," is distantly related to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who created the character.

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

In the spring of 1920, at the beginning of a growing fascination with spiritualism brought on by the death of his son and brother in WWI, Arthur Conan Doyle took up the case of the Cottingley Fairies. Mary Losure explores how the creator of Sherlock Holmes became convinced that the 'fairy photographs' taken by two girls from Yorkshire were real.

1. "Surprise me" were the last words of the 100-year-old, legendary comedian Bob Hope, responding to his wife's question regarding where he would like to be buried.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) “I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.” From A Study in Scarlet, in Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection (Enhanced Media, 2016).

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Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes had an eye for architectural detail, an interest derived from his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle. Jeremy Musson looks at how it emerges in the books, with the help of specially commissioned drawings by Matthew Rice for the Country Life Picture Library.