The idea had been nagging at Mark Shanahan for years. What if you wrote a play combining the world’s most famous detective with Charles Dickens’s iconic holiday ghost story, “A Christmas Carol”? To ...

Ruth Sherlock is an International Correspondent with National Public Radio. She's based in Beirut and reports on Syria and other countries around the Middle East. She was previously the United States ...

The main character in the novel is the private detective, Sherlock Holmes. He is presented through the viewpoint of his friend, Dr John Watson, the narrator of the story. Watson describes him as a ...