Every night in the month of April we'll be jumping from one literary London plaque to another, connecting each plaque to another literary figure commemorated elsewhere in London with a nugget of literary trivia. Creative collaborations, romantic entanglements, feuds, places-in-common, the links will vary, but over the course of 30 days we'll have covered poets, biographers, novelists, humourists, critics, thriller writers and more until we have arrived full circle back at plaque number one!
13. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Conan Doyle's Sherlock
Holmes short stories were published by The Strand Magazine and in 1902 The
Hound of The Baskervilles was serialised in that same famous weekly title. The
Strand published the works of many notable writers, including…
We'll be back tomorrow night with our next
Plaque Tiddlywink. In the meantime, here's where to find tonight's plaque in Upper Wimpole Street…
And here's the latest episode of the London Walks Podcast on Literary London…
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