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100 1  Sims, Michael,|d1958- 
245 10 Arthur and Sherlock :|bConan Doyle and the creation of 
       Holmes /|cMichael Sims. 
246 30 Conan Doyle and the creation of Holmes 
264  1 New York :|bBloomsbury USA,|c2017. 
300    x, 245 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520    " 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. "--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
600 10 Doyle, Arthur Conan,|d1859-1930. 
600 10 Doyle, Arthur Conan,|d1859-1930|xCharacters|xSherlock 
       Holmes. 
600 10 Holmes, Sherlock. 
650  0 Authors, Scottish|y19th century|vBiography. 
650  0 Authors, Scottish|y20th century|vBiography. 
650  0 Physicians|zGreat Britain|vBiography. 
650  0 Spiritualists|zGreat Britain|vBiography. 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft