Mark Jones
Mark Jones (BSI, MBt, ASH) 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 (co-written with Lance Parkin), 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.
Selected bibliography
2023
Conan Doyle: Mystery and Adventure, Inside the lost 1967 BBC TV series 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle' (Kaleidoscope Publishing, 4 august 2023)
Podcast
Since 2019
In 2019, he 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.
Lectures
2023
- 26.06.2023 : Arthur Conan Doyle and the Adventure of the Gaiola Malediction: A Tragicomic Tale of Art, Science, Money and Mishaps, by Mark Jones and Ross Davies.
