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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle
George Edalji
The public had wanted Arthur to channel his inner Sherlock for years. In 1908, he received another letter from a fan, who’d read The Hound of the Baskervilles while in prison. His name was George Edalji. George believed he’d been wrongly accused of a crime and thought Arthur Conan Doyle was the man to help.
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Why did Arthur Conan Doyle come to hate his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes?