The adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle : the real life Sherlock Holmes / Christopher Sandford.

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire : The History Press, 2022.

412 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm

Originally published: as The man who would be Sherlock. 2017.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

When Arthur Conan Doyle was a small, lonely boy at pre-prep Newington Academy in Edinburgh, a Frenchman named Eugene Chantrelle was engaged there to teach Modern Languages. Ten years later, he would be hanged for the murder of six young girls, and two boys from the Academy - and medical student Doyle would provide forensic evidence at the trial concerning the dismembered bodies. This extraordinary link between actual murder and the greatest detective story writer of all time is one of many. Christopher Sandford follows those links and draws out the connections between Conan Doyle's literary output and factual criminality, a pattern that will enthrall and surprise the legions of Sherlock fans. In a sense, Conan Doyle wanted to be Sherlock - to be a man who could bring order and justice to a terrible world.

9780750998581 (pbk)

823.912
823.9'12

English

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