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    Arthur & Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes

    By Michael Sims

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    'Fascinating … A stimulating contribution to our never-ending fascination with Holmes himself, and, even more perhaps, his genial creator' Sunday Times

    A medical student at the University of Edinburgh, Arthur Conan Doyle studied under the vigilant eye of Dr Joseph Bell. He observed as Dr Bell identified a patient's occupation, hometown and ailments from the smallest details of dress, gait and speech. Although Doyle was training to be a surgeon, he was cultivating essential knowledge that would help him to define the art of the detective novel.

    From Doyle's early days surrounded by poverty and violence, through to his first days as a surgeon, Michael Sims traces the circuitous yet inevitable development of Arthur Conan Doyle as the father of the modern mystery. The incomparable Sherlock Holmes emerges as a product of Doyle's varied lessons in the classroom and professional life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateMar 9, 2017
    ISBN9781408858561
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    Arthur & Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes
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    Michael Sims

    Michael Sims's six acclaimed non-fiction books include The Adventures of Henry Thoreau, The Story of Charlotte's Web, and Adam's Navel, and he edits the Connoisseur's Collection anthology series, which includes Dracula's Guest, The Dead Witness, The Phantom Coach, and the forthcoming Frankenstein Dreams. His writing has appeared in New Statesman, New York Times, Washington Post, and many other periodicals. He appears often on NPR, BBC, and other networks. He lives in Pennsylvania. michaelsimsbooks.com

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    • 3/5
      History of Conan Doyle ending with his reaching success with the Sherlock Holmes character. Heavy on interesting facts, light on creating the story of Conan Doyle. Significant detail about Doyle's father and his illness without any particular conclusion reached. Credit given to Professor Bell for the reasoned approach to detection. Credit also given to preceding fictional detective characters. The most fascinating aspect was Doyle's apparent need to be a successful popular writer.
    • 3/5
      Some interesting aspects to this book, like similarity between Holmes and Doyle's professor, Bell. Surprised that there was no mention of Doyle killing of Holmes and then resurrecting him.
    • 5/5
      A great book. Sims writes astonishingly well about the early life of AC Doyle, and the difficulty in getting published in the 1880s. He writes about all of the magazines and papers that were exploding on both sides of the Atlantic.
    • 4/5
      Nice book..gives good insight into the early years of Arthur Conan Doyle
    • 2/5
      Rather too much detail on the influences prompting Doyle to invent the Holmes character - sometimes interesting - Riding a bicycle for two with wife Touie, who caught the train home from their outing!
    • 3/5
      This is an interesting biography / history of Conan Doyle’s life as a young man. The reader learns of the people and events that influenced and inspired him when he created his most famous character: Sherlock Holmes. There was the professor in medical school who had trained himself to keenly observe a patient’s demeanor, clothing, and general appearance and from those observable “clues” infer the man’s occupation, background, and even marital status. And there were the writings of Edgar Allen Poe, Wilkie Collins, Emile Gaboriau and others, on whose foundations Doyle built his own style.I also found it interesting to learn of the publishing business in this era, and stunned to discover that Donan Doyle had to basically sell his copyright in order to get that first Holme’s mystery published.