Sherlock Holmes Among the Bees

From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia

Sherlock Holmes Among the Bees is an article/photo published in The Daily Mail (Brisbane) on 15 january 1921.


Sherlock Holmes Among the Bees

The Daily Mail (Brisbane) (15 january 1921, p. 7)

Sir Conan and Lady Doyle are here being initiated into the mysteries of bee-keeping by Mr. H. L. Jones, of Redbank Plains apiary. Despite the fact that Sir Conan Doyle "retired" his great creation, Sherlock Holmes, to a bee-farm, the famous author had his first insight into bee-farming on Thursday. It is an amusing coincidence that the nets which the visitors are wearing as protection against the bees closely resemble, in the photograph, the psycho-plastic material in which spirit-faces are framed in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's own slides.