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But there's also a battered bitterness in this Karen Holmes. She may sashay in public, but at home with her philandering husband she spits out her contempt in cigarette puffs. Her hatred for him, and what he did to her, leads Karen into liaisons out of desperation and revenge...
At Holmes' side, of course, was Dr. Watson - trusted friend, occasional accomplice and engaging narrator. Looming even larger, however, was another doctor, one whose medical practice was so slow it allowed him plenty of time to pursue his literary ambition. His name: Arthur Conan Doyle. As the creator of these...
A superb student, Conan Doyle went on to medical school, where he was entranced by Dr. Joseph Bell, a charismatic professor with an uncanny ability to diagnose patients even before they opened their mouths. For a time he worked as Bell's outpatient clerk and would watch, amazed, at how...
But he quickly tired of the tales, complaining to his mother that Holmes "takes my mind from better things." So, in 1893, he sent the detective over the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland during a struggle with his underworld nemesis, Professor Moriarty. "Killed Holmes" was all Conan Doyle deigned to scribble...
The later letters are those of an important public figure, dining with the King and earning a knighthood with an impassioned defense of Britain's role in the Boer War at a time when world opinion was against it, not least due to the British Army's use of scorched...