Detective Holmes’ creator consulted psychic in Toledo

On his first visit to Toledo on Oct. 19, 1894, Scottish-born Arthur Conan Doyle discussed his captivating books featuring detective Sherlock Holmes.

The tall 35-year-old was a guest of the Toledo Cycling Club at the auditorium in the seven-story National Union Building on Huron Street. It was his first tour of the country and he charmed Americans in 30 cities.

By the time he returned to Toledo 27 years later, he had been knighted by the king of England, fathered five children, buried a wife and a son, and married a woman he had adored for years. He’d run unsuccessfully for parliament; wrote prolifically on war, politics, adventure, and for the stage, and had investigated two closed-crime cases, resulting in freedom for the men who had been imprisoned.

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