Arthur Conan Doyle secretly resented his Sherlock Holmes creation, says historian
Author blamed literary success of the fictional detective for his highbrow historical novels ‘lying unread’
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Author blamed literary success of the fictional detective for his highbrow historical novels ‘lying unread’
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Lucy Worsley has always had a bit of a crush on Sherlock Holmes. Bookish, fiendishly clever, bohemian, what's not to love? But she hasn't been so keen on his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Basil Rathbone resented being typecast as Sherlock Holmes after playing the detective in 1940s films. Even his family thought he had been a fine thespian until
Welcome to a review of all the Sherlock Holmes stories which are collected in the work, “The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.” They appeared in the Strand Magazine from December 1892 to...