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020    9781782438458|q(hbk.) 
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100 1  Smith, Daniel,|d1976-|eauthor. 
245 14 The Ardlamont mystery :|bthe real-life story behind the 
       creation of Sherlock Holmes /|cDaniel Smith. 
264  1 London :|bMichael O'Mara Books Limited,|c2018. 
300    254 pages , 8 unnumbered pages of plates :|billustrations 
       (black and white) ;|c24 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
336    still image|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520    The Ardlamont murder trial, which took place in 
       Edinburgh's High Court in December 1893, was the 
       culmination of one of the most intriguing criminal cases 
       in British legal history. But perhaps more remarkable than
       that was that it brought together the two principal real-
       life inspirations behind the creation of the world's 
       favourite fictional consulting detective: Sherlock Holmes.
       Joseph Bell and Henry Littlejohn were Professors of 
       Medicine at Edinburgh University. As educators, medical 
       trailblazers and social reformers, the two friends were 
       pioneers in the emerging world of forensic science, and 
       both were called as expert witnesses at the Ardlamont 
       murder trial. Under their tutelage had been a young 
       student named Arthur Conan Doyle. He had served as an 
       assistant to Bell, where he was able to scrutinise at 
       first-hand Bell's remarkable deductive powers. In fact, 
       Conan Doyle went on to say of Bell: 'It is most certainly 
       to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes'. 
600 10 Doyle, Arthur Conan,|d1859-1930|xCharacters|xSherlock 
       Holmes. 
600 10 Bell, Joseph,|d1837-1911. 
600 10 Littlejohn, Henry|q(Henry Duncan),|d1826-1914. 
650  0 Murder|zScotland|zArgyllshire|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Trials (Murder)|zScotland|zEdinburgh|xHistory|y19th 
       century.