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Article: Conan Doyle case isn't open and shut
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- Evening News - Scotland
- Article date:
- September 2, 2009
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Surely it is elementary, so why has Edinburgh been so slow to
celebrate - and cash in on - one of its most famous sons. Laura
Cummings investigates
IT'S a mystery worthy of investigation by the great Victorian
detective himself. Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is
among the world's most famous authors, celebrated around the world
and the subject of a mini-tourism industry around London's Baker
Street.
Yet in Edinburgh, the city where he was born 150 years ago, where
he was educated and where he gathered inspiration for the famous
sleuth, there is remarkably little to recognise the great man.
After all, unless you happen to wander on to York Place where
there is a pub named ...