Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes and a noted spiritist, died today at his home, Windlesham, in Crowborough, Sussex. He was 71 years old.
Well, I'm not sure about the Zombie boot camp – a boot camp is a short course of hard physical training – but the Sherlock Holmes awayday sounds like fun.
Now he was obviously an incredibly intelligent man — he was a doctor and also wrote all of the Sherlock Holmes books where he really shows a very clear understanding of what logical deduction should be.
That led to multiple legal tangles over unauthorized new Sherlock Holmes stories, including a now-settled suit against Netflix for its spinoff Enola Holmes.