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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle
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Sherlock Holmes is the most well-known detective in the world. He made his author, Arthur Conan Doyle, rich and famous. But the writer came to hate his fictional character. Through the changing world of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, Lucy Worsley explores why.
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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?