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The Men Who Were Sherlock Holmes
- A True-life Victorian Murder Mystery
Engelsk Paperback
The Men Who Were Sherlock Holmes
- A True-life Victorian Murder Mystery
Engelsk Paperback

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The sensational story of the real-life origins of the fictional Sherlock Holmes – and how crime fiction and crime fact collided in a case that gripped Victorian Britain

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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
256
ISBN-13:
9781789296297
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1789296293
Udg. Dato:
9 maj 2024
Længde:
29mm
Bredde:
197mm
Højde:
129mm
Forlag:
Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
Oplagsdato:
9 maj 2024
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