| Creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) |
| Profession Writer, Physician |
| Total Entries 10 |
| Articles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Estate Sues Netflix, Legendary & Others Over ‘Enola Holmes’ Film – Deadline Arthur Conan Doyle – Wikipedia How Sherlock Holmes Got His Name – Lit Hub |
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Memories of Joe Bell at Edinburgh played like a stage drama across Arthur’s imagination. He remembered his aquiline face, his sharp, perceptive gaze. He imagined that if a keen observer à la Dr. Bell applied himself to crime instead of to medicine, he would represent an almost invincible combination of perception and knowledge—at least in the stage-managed world of popular fiction. Real-world crime detection was more haphazard and erratic. Forensics encountered resistance from tradition, like the rest of science. One of the most dramatic advances in criminal investigation—the detection of previously overlooked fingerprints and their value as a form of identification—had been initiated in India in the 1850s. But a systematic approach for it had been proposed only as recently as 1880, by a Scottish surgeon named Henry Faulds. In 1886, the year that Arthur wrote A Study in Scarlet, Faulds presented his idea to London’s police department—which dismissed it as far-fetched and impractical. ~ How Sherlock Holmes Got His Name – Lit Hub
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