Every January 1 in the Books department, we like to make an extra toast for a concurrent holiday: Public Domain Day.

Susan McKinney/review | Shrouded in mystery: Lady Sherlock returns with 'A Ruse of Shadows' ...

and mathematicians (“the last named for Moriarty, of course,” Zach Dundas writes). 3. Sherlock Holmes’s influence was vast among elite writers. T.S. Eliot said, “Every writer owes ...