Mark Jones

From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Mark Jones (2019)

Mark Jones (BSI, MBt, ASH) is a Doylean and Sherlockian expert from York, UK.


Biography

Mark Jones has been fascinated by the works of Arthur Conan Doyle since he read the canon one wet summer holiday as a twelve-year-old, before diving into The Lost World. He studied and taught the history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and continues to work in higher education as a consultant.

He has written several books on television, film and literature including 'Dark Matters', an introduction to Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials novels for young teenagers. He has contributed articles to The Baker Street Journal, Canadian Holmes, The Serpentine Muse and numerous blogs, as well as lectures related to Arthur Conan Doyle (see below).

In 2021, he co-created The Literary Agents, a scion society of The Baker Street Irregulars (BSI) dedicated to studying Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's works — not exclusively (but also not excluding) those he may have promoted for, or under the name of, Dr John H. Watson.

In 2023, he wrote Conan Doyle: Mystery and Adventure, Inside the lost 1967 BBC TV series 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle' (Kaleidoscope Publishing, 4 august 2023).


Doylean Works

Books


Conan Doyle: Mystery and Adventure, Inside the lost 1967 BBC TV series 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle'
Kaleidoscope Publishing
4 august 2023
384 pages
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Mark Jones reconstructs the largely lost 1967 BBC2 series Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted by John Hawkesworth from thirteen Conan Doyle stories, using surviving scripts, production files, correspondence, and the Hawkesworth archive to illuminate a forgotten but important chapter in Conan Doyle screen history.
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Podcast


Doings of Doyle
doingsofdoyle.com
In 2019, Mark Jones co-created and co-hosting with Paul M. Chapman the podcast Doings of Doyle (website, Facebook, Youtube) dedicated to the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, thus promoting knowledge, appreciation and study of Conan Doyle's writings, both fiction and non-fiction.
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Lectures


2023

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2024

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Articles

  • "The Tales of Captain Sharkey" (The Magic Door, Vol. 21 Issue 1, Fall 2020)
  • "Conan Doyle's other work for The Strand Magazine" (Canadian Holmes, Vol. 45 No. 1, Winter 2021/2022)
  • "Canonical Cholecystitis – Watson, Budd, and Typhoid", with Robert S. Katz, Canadian Holmes, Vol. 45 No. 4, Fall 2022)
  • "Exploring the Edge of the Unknown: Arthur Conan Doyle and the Borderlands of Science", with Paul M. Chapman, in My Scientific Methods: Science in the Sherlockian Canon (BSI Press, 2022)
  • "Doctors Courageous: From The Stark Munro Letters to the Ascent of The Citadel", in Stimulating Medicine: More Nerve and Knowledge (BSI Press, 2022)
  • "Conan Doyle's other work for The Strand Magazine" (Canadian Holmes, Vol. 45 No. 2, Spring 2022)
  • "Conan Doyle's other work for The Strand Magazine" (Canadian Holmes, Vol. 45 No. 3, Summer 2022)
  • "Conan Doyle's other work for The Strand Magazine" (Canadian Holmes, Vol. 45 No. 4, Fall 2022)
  • "Conan Doyle's other work for The Strand Magazine" (Canadian Holmes, Vol. 46 No. 2, Spring 2023)
  • "Conan Doyle's other work for The Strand Magazine" (Canadian Holmes, Vol. 46 No. 3, Summer 2023)
  • "Conan Doyle's other work for The Strand Magazine" (Canadian Holmes, Vol. 46 No. 4, Fall 2023)
  • "Conan Doyle's other work for The Strand Magazine" (Canadian Holmes, Vol. 47 No. 1, Winter 2023/2024)
  • "'Citizens of the same world-wide country': The American Authors Who Influenced Conan Doyle", in A West Wind: How America and Americans Influenced the Sherlockian Canon (BSI Press, revised edition January 2024)
  • "Conan Doyle's other work for The Strand Magazine" (Canadian Holmes, Vol. 47 No. 2, Spring 2024)
  • "Global Conan Doyle – Launching the Edinburgh Works" (Doings of Doyle, 4 May 2024)
  • "Conan Doyle's other work for The Strand Magazine" (Canadian Holmes, Vol. 47 No. 3, Summer 2024)
  • "Conan Doyle's non-Sherlockian works in The Strand Magazine" (Canadian Holmes, Vol. 47 No. 4, Fall 2024)
  • "These Feverish Days": Conan Doyle's Post-War Fiction, in That Ghastly Face: A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of "The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier" (BSI Manuscript Series, December 2024)


Sherlockian Works

Articles

  • "On the Obliquity of the Ecliptic and Other Incidental Topics" (The Baker Street Journal, Summer 2017)
  • "Trading Places: Peru, Sumatra, and Mincing Lane" (The Baker Street Journal, Autumn 2018)
  • "Catching the Birdy" (The Baker Street Journal, Summer 2019)
  • "Charles Thomas Marvin, the Foreign Office, and the Naval Treaty" (The Baker Street Journal, Summer 2021)
  • "The forgotten victims of Black Peter" (Canadian Holmes, Vol. 44 No. 4, Fall 2021)
  • "I Was Alright Until the Dust Jacket" ( The Sherlock Holmes Journal, Summer 2022)
  • Book review in "I Am an Omnivorous Reader" (The Sherlock Holmes Journal, Summer 2023)
  • "Invoking the Devil: John Donne, Radix Pedis Diaboli and the Truth of the Cornish Horror" (The Sherlock Holmes Journal, Summer 2024)
  • "It Is With a Heavy Heart..." (obituaries by Roger Johnson and Mark Jones, The Sherlock Holmes Journal, Summer 2025)
  • Book review in "I Am an Omnivorous Reader" (The Sherlock Holmes Journal, Summer 2025)





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