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The Ardlamont Mystery - The Real-Life Story Behind the Creation of Sherlock Holmes (Hardcover)
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The Ardlamont Mystery - The Real-Life Story Behind the Creation of Sherlock Holmes (Hardcover)
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The real-life mystery featuring the two men - Joseph Bell and Henry
Littlejohn - who inspired the creation of Sherlock Holmes. December
1893. Arthur Conan Doyle shocks his legions of fans by killing off
the world's favourite fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes.
Meanwhile, in Scotland, a sensational real-life murder trial is
playing out. Alfred Monson, a scion of the aristocracy, is charged
with killing a young army lieutenant, Cecil Hambrough, on the
sprawling Ardlamont estate. The worlds of crime fiction and crime
fact are about to collide spectacularly. Among the key prosecution
witnesses that the Ardlamont case brought together were two
esteemed Edinburgh doctors, Joseph Bell and Henry Littlejohn. Bell
- Doyle's tutor when the author studied medicine in the 1870s - had
recently been unmasked as the inspiration behind the creation of
Sherlock Holmes (Doyle said of Bell, 'It is most certainly to you
that I owe Sherlock Holmes...'). But what the public did not know
was that Bell and Littlejohn - a pioneer in the emerging field of
forensic detection - had actually been investigating crimes
together for more than twenty years. Largely unacknowledged,
Littlejohn deserves equal billing as the prototype of Baker
Street's most famous resident. In The Ardlamont Mystery, author
Daniel Smith re-examines the evidence of the case that gripped
Victorian Britain, putting forward his own theory as to why Cecil
Hambrough was murdered. Outlining the key roles of the men whose
powers of deduction and detection had so inspired Doyle, Smith
explores the real-world origins of Sherlock Holmes through the
prism of a mystery as engrossing as any case the Great Detective
ever tackled. Will Bell and Littlejohn's shared faith in science
and reason be enough to see justice win out?
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