Beyond the City

A side of Arthur Conan Doyle almost no one remembers: a warm domestic comedy written in 1892, between the Sherlock Holmes stories. In a genteel Norwood suburb of two elderly bachelors and a houseful of marriageable young women, everything is settled and proper — until a widow moves in next door who bicycles, boxes, and holds opinions, and the neighborhood is never the same. Affectionate and braver...