It is to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes, wrote Arthur Conan Doyle to his former professor and mentor, Dr. Joseph Bell, in 1892. A distinguished physician and professor of medicine at Edinburgh University, and a forensic expert for the British Crown, Joseph Bell was well known for his remarkable powers of observation and deduction. In what would become true Sherlockian fashion, he had the ability to deduce facts about his patients from otherwise unremarkable details. In one instance recounted by Arthur Conan Doyle himself - ...
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It is to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes, wrote Arthur Conan Doyle to his former professor and mentor, Dr. Joseph Bell, in 1892. A distinguished physician and professor of medicine at Edinburgh University, and a forensic expert for the British Crown, Joseph Bell was well known for his remarkable powers of observation and deduction. In what would become true Sherlockian fashion, he had the ability to deduce facts about his patients from otherwise unremarkable details. In one instance recounted by Arthur Conan Doyle himself - and similar to Sherlock Holmes' own observations in ""The Greek Interpreter"" - Bell took little time to determine that one of his patients had recently served in the army, a non-commissioned officer discharged from his Highland regiment stationed in Barbados: ""The man was a respectful man, but did not remove his hat. They do not in the army, but he would have learned civilian ways had he been long discharged. He has an air of authority and he is obviously Scottish. As to Barbados, his complaint is elephantitis, which is West Indian and not British."" Based on extensive research into the life of Bell and including tantalizing accounts of the connections between Bell and Conan Doyle, this biography is required reading for anyone interested in Victorian medicine, in the history of detective fiction, and in Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Joseph Bell's relationship to Arthur Conan Doyle was the subject of the television production ""Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes"", originally aired in the United Kingdom in 2000 and on BBC America.
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1982
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Good. Autographed copy by author. Cover art is different than pictured. 1982 edition. Paperback cover has some minor wear along the sides, scuffs and bending but is in overall good condition. Pages are clean and the binding is secure.
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Near Fine. No Jacket. A biography of the physicia, professor, and forensic expert who was mentor to Arthur Conan Doyle and the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes. Reprint. Lower rear corner very gently bumped, 269 pages.
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