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...Sleuth. The creator of Sherlock Holmes was bombarded with problems for solution by the methods of his best-known character. Many of these he tackled, with varying degrees of success...
...practise he began as assistant to a formidable creature, half lunatic, half genius, half doctor, half quack, who later turned against him and cunningly contrived to leave him stranded practically penniless in Portsmouth. A minute practice and an occasional short story kept him alive. At about this time, the Sherlock Holmes stories began to be written...
...perpetually in scrapes, liked to fight. Later, at Edinburgh University, studying medicine, he met a bearded barrel of a man, original of "Professor Challenger" in The Lost World. There, also, was Joseph Bell, surgeon, whose specialty was diagnosis through observation and deduction. Bell was the original Sherlock Holmes...
...Sherlock Holmes. All stage impersonations and drawings of Sherlock Holmes, his best-known creation, are, says Doyle, very unlike his original idea. The detective had, as imagined by Doyle, "a thin, razor-like face, with a great hawk's-bill of a nose and two small eyes, set close together on either side of it." But the original illustrations, done by the late Sidney Paget, were posed for by the artist's handsome younger brother. Future illustrators have followed Paget. The name of the character was originally planned as "Sherringford Holmes." Dr. Doyle has always felt that...
...really the only form of literature which strikes a common chord in the hearts of all readers. They are read by the intelligentsia, the middle classes, and the great unwashed. Under the circumstances, it is strange that there are so few good mystery stories. Sir Conan Doyle has deserted Sherlock Holmes for spiritualism. Cyril McNeile puts out a good "Bull-Dog Drummond" story every now and then, but not often enough. There are quite a few books put out with such appetizing titles as "The Red House Mystery", but they are not mysterious. The production of one of the most...