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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle

Janice Allan

There's a lot of weirdness in the later Sherlock Holmes stories – the Casebook of Sherlock Holmes. There are vampires, even a bit of science fiction. To Sherlock Holmes fans who liked Holmes’s rationality, this must have seemed like a really strange new departure? Lucy explores the story ‘The Creeping Man’ with Professor Janice Allan.

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Why did Arthur Conan Doyle come to hate his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes?
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