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In 1893, young army officer Cecil Hambrough was murdered at the
sprawling Ardlamont estate in Scotland, unleashing one of the most
gripping court cases Victorian Britain had ever known. Even more
remarkably, the case brought together two pioneering forensic
experts – Joseph Bell and Henry Littlejohn – two men upon whom
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes happened to be based. It is
their involvement in the Ardlamont affair that reveals how the
world’s most famous detective came to be: the worlds of crime
fiction and crime fact were about to collide spectacularly. In this
extraordinary book, Daniel Smith outlines the key roles of the two
men whose powers of deduction had so inspired Doyle and explores
the real-world origins of Sherlock Holmes through the prism of a
mystery as engrossing as any case the Great Detective ever tackled.
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