"That is the great Grimpen Mire," said [Stapleton]. "A false step yonder means death to man or beast. Only yesterday I saw one of the moor ponies wander into it. He never came out. I saw his head for ...

Is there another line in fiction better calculated to create the most delicious of shivers than: "They were the footprints of a gigantic hound"? And here we are once again at 221b Baker Street, the ...

A rescue operation was launched on Dartmoor yesterday evening after a cyclist got stuck in a bog. The swampy area is reputed to be the inspiration for the fictional Grimpen Mire in the Sherlock Holmes ...