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  title info:
    title: Arthur and Sherlock
    sub title: Conan Doyle and the creation of Holmes
  name:
    name part: Sims, Michael
    name part: 1958-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 245 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: As a young medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle studied in Edinburgh under the vigilant eye of a diagnostic genius, Dr. Joseph Bell. Doyle often observed Bell identifying a patient's occupation, hometown and ailments from the smallest details of dress, gait and speech. Although Doyle was training to be a surgeon, he was meanwhile cultivating essential knowledge that would feed his literary dreams and help him develop the most iconic detective in fiction. Michael Sims traces the circuitous development of Conan Doyle as the father of the modern mystery, from his early days in Edinburgh surrounded by poverty and violence, through his escape to University (where he gained terrifying firsthand knowledge of poisons), leading to his own medical practice in 1882. Five hardworking years later, after Doyle's only modest success in both medicine and literature, Sherlock Holmes emerged in A Study in Scarlet. Sims deftly shows Holmes to be a product of Doyle's varied adventures in his personal and professional life, as well as built out of the traditions of Edgar Allan Poe, Émile Gaboriau, Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens, not just a skillful translator of clues, but a veritable superhero of the mind in the tradition of Doyle's esteemed teacher. Filled with details that will surprise even the most knowledgeable Sherlockian, Arthur and Sherlock is a literary genesis story for detective fans everywhere.
  table of contents: Overture: remembering. Part 1 Dr. Bell and Mr. Doyle : A super-man -- Your powers of deduction -- Art in the blood -- Seven weary steps -- Athens of the north -- No man of flesh and blood -- Ode to opium -- Drinking poison -- Intemperance -- Dr. Conan Doyle, surgeon -- A wealth of youth and pluck -- The circular tour -- The unseen world. Part 2 Prophets and police : The method of Zadig -- The footmarks of Poe -- How do you know that? -- Games of chess, played with live pieces. Part 3 Mr. Holmes and Dr. Watson : Dr. Sacker and Mr. Hope -- Bohemians in Baker Street -- A little too scientific -- The book of life -- A basilisk in the desert -- A born novelist -- The preternatural sagacity of a scientific detective -- Truth as death -- Watson's brother's watch -- Dread of madhouses -- Adventures in the Strand -- Deerstalker -- To my old teacher. Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography and further reading -- Index.
  note: Michael Sims.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Doyle, Arthur Conan
      name part: 1859-1930
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Doyle, Arthur Conan
      name part: 1859-1930
    topic: Characters
    topic: Sherlock Holmes
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Holmes, Sherlock
  subject:
    topic: Authors, Scottish
    temporal: 19th century
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Authors, Scottish
    temporal: 20th century
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Physicians
    geographic: Great Britain
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Spiritualists
    geographic: Great Britain
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
  classification: PR4623 .S36 2017
  classification: 823/.8 B
  identifier: 9781632860392
  identifier: 1632860392
  identifier: 9781632860385
  identifier: 2016033351
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 161107
    record change date: 20190902135405.0
    record identifier: in00003832286