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Recently, I found myself thinking a lot about Sherlock Holmes.

Not like there's gotta be some clue here that would unlock this whole story.

Some homes in solutions to the locked-door mystery they would finally reveal Naomi's killer.

It's nothing like that.

In fact, I don't think about Sherlock Holmes in relation to the murder or is all.

I think of him when I imagine talking to the ghost in my teenage bedroom.

But more to the point, I think of his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

When I talk on this subject, I'm not talking about what I believe.

I'm not talking about what I think.

I'm talking about what I know.

That's Conan Doyle, the guy who created perhaps the most rational, evidence-obsessed character in the history of literature.

Describing his absolute certainty that we can talk to the dead.

In fact, he was sort of the celebrity spokesperson for what was a much larger movement.

World War I had left millions dead, and those who survived were turning to the paranormal for comfort.

It was only in the time of the war, when all these splendid young fellows were disappearing from our view.

The whole world was saying, well, what's become of them?

Have they dissipated into nothing?

Or are they still the grand fellows that we used to know?

One person Conan Doyle pointed to his proof that we could speak with the dead was the magician Harry Houdini.

Houdini was also world famous at this point, mostly as an escape artist, but also because he would perform sayances as part of his act.

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