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Article: Who killed Sherlock Holmes? When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about the demise of his most famous creation, his motives were far from elementary. As a new TV drama recreates the troubled world of the author, ALICE FOWLER investigates.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- July 9, 2005
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Byline: ALICE FOWLER
Walking down a London street, Arthur Conan Doyle's eye is caught by a stranger, his face in shadow. When the man turns, Conan Doyle sees he is grotesquely mutilated: one ear ripped clean away, his face wet with blood. An instant later, the man - if he existed at all - is gone. At the height of his literary success, the creator of Sherlock Holmes is left doubting his own sanity.
For Conan Doyle, as depicted in a new BBC drama, such moments of Gothic horror were all too common. In The Strange Case Of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle, the bestselling author - played by Douglas Henshall - is a troubled man, at war with the fictional ...