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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, got so tired of the great sleuth that he had wicked Professor Moriarty shove him over a waterfall, restored him to life only after a public clamor. Humorist Stephen Leacock also tried his hand at rubbing Sherlock out: he put him on...
All to no purpose. Beloved in the '90s, Sherlock Holmes is in tiptop legendary health today. He has not even been killed by the deadly fact that almost any modern writer of whodunits constructs stories far more ingeniously than Doyle did and sticks much closer to reality at the...
The Old Yellow Fog. In The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, a dozen new stories "based on unsolved cases [from] the original . . . stories," Adrian Conan Doyle (Sir Arthur's youngest son) and John Dickson Carr have tried their hands at rebuilding this magic world. Like a pair of Frank Lloyd...
"'I take it that you are familiar with the name of the Duke of Carringford?' [asked Holmes].
"'Doubtless it will surprise you to learn, Watson, that I am aware of that fact,' replied Holmes testily."