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The classic whodunnit: did Arthur Conan Doyle plot the murder of Harry Houdini?

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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20070324
Author:Eben Harrell

SIR Arthur Conan Doyle is typically portrayed as a genial Scottish gentleman who in his spare time created one of the world's greatest detective characters.

But, in a case worthy of the great Sherlock Holmes himself, the author has become embroiled in a sinister mystery over the death of the legendary escapologist Harry Houdini.

Houdini's great-nephew announced plans yesterday to exhume his body, amid claims that Conan Doyle or one of his confederates may have poisoned him.

The escapologist died on Halloween 1926, ostensibly from a ruptured appendix caused by a blow to the stomach during a ...

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