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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle
The Bodybuilder
If Sherlock Holmes had been about brains, this was about brawn. Arthur became the judge of Britain’s very first body building competition at the Albert Hall. Can you image 80 men standing on pedestals, wearing leopard skin? But what was the aim of it?
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Why did Arthur Conan Doyle come to hate his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes?