Spencer Aste

"...The play is particularly concerned with his tenuous friendship with the 'Sherlock Holmes' author Arthur Conan Doyle (Spencer Aste), a rabid and somewhat alcohol-soaked believer in spiritualism who is eager to make contact with his dead son. The two men exchange ideas in glancing-blow fashion, Conan Doyle (Mr. Aste is excellent) never quit accepting that Houdini is not a believer."

-Neil Genzlinger, The New York Times