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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle
Killing Sherlock
How do you kill the world's most famous detective? Lucy Worsley visits the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland, the site where Arthur Conan Doyle finally decided to have his fictional sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, killed following a dramatic confrontation with prolific criminal, Professor Moriarty.
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How would Arthur Conan Doyle’s new spiritualist beliefs change his famous detective Sherlock Holmes?
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Without Sherlock Holmes, can Arthur Conan Doyle become the hero of his own story?
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Why did Arthur Conan Doyle come to hate his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes?