Forgot to mention that Houdini and Doyle were actually friends in real life, so the speculation makes total sense.

Even though this Escape episode wasn’t a classic, it comes very close to being one because the story itself is so well-thought out and put together, and the acting is so top notch, and the mystery of what happened to the train kept me hooked until the end. If it had been a straight-up Sherlock Holmes story, it would have been a classic. First time I’ve
heard a story by ACD that wasn’t a Sherlock Holmes story—it was still pretty good anyway.

Speaking of ACD, there was actually a show on the CW network a few years back called Houdini and Doyle, which speculated how both the famous magician and the famous author could have teamed up and solved weird mysteries together. It was only on for barely a season, but it was pretty interesting,.