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Dr Joseph Bell: The Original Sherlock Holmes
79 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2005
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September 16, 2020
I read this once then had to read it again as something irked me about it.
After the second reading it twigged what it was.
Dr. Joseph Bell had an assistant called Arthur Conan Doyle in Edinburgh in the later 1800s.
It was at a later date that Arthur later to become Sir Arthur Conan Doyle started to write his books on Sherlock Holmes.
You can imagine literary greats in the Edwardian times sitting in their club or large houses smoking cigars and talking around the snooker table.
Then I realised that it was most likely that Doyle and George Bernard Shaw had sat and talked at one of these gatherings.
Doyle telling Shaw about his early life and Dr. Joseph Bell.
Then it occurred to me that Pygmalion ( my fair lady ) was written around the start of the First World War.
Shaw must have been told by Doyle of Dr. Joseph Bell being able to tell Doyle were a resident of Edinburgh came from. In some cases which end of the street they lived.
Hence Pygmalion ( my fair lady ) was written by Shaw and Doyle based his Sherlock Holmes stories on Dr. Joseph Bell.
Who finished up as Queen Victoria’s physician when she visited Edinburgh.
Other than that a thoroughly entertaining little book.
Would recommend it to any who may be interested in Sherlock Holmes history.
After the second reading it twigged what it was.
Dr. Joseph Bell had an assistant called Arthur Conan Doyle in Edinburgh in the later 1800s.
It was at a later date that Arthur later to become Sir Arthur Conan Doyle started to write his books on Sherlock Holmes.
You can imagine literary greats in the Edwardian times sitting in their club or large houses smoking cigars and talking around the snooker table.
Then I realised that it was most likely that Doyle and George Bernard Shaw had sat and talked at one of these gatherings.
Doyle telling Shaw about his early life and Dr. Joseph Bell.
Then it occurred to me that Pygmalion ( my fair lady ) was written around the start of the First World War.
Shaw must have been told by Doyle of Dr. Joseph Bell being able to tell Doyle were a resident of Edinburgh came from. In some cases which end of the street they lived.
Hence Pygmalion ( my fair lady ) was written by Shaw and Doyle based his Sherlock Holmes stories on Dr. Joseph Bell.
Who finished up as Queen Victoria’s physician when she visited Edinburgh.
Other than that a thoroughly entertaining little book.
Would recommend it to any who may be interested in Sherlock Holmes history.
December 15, 2024
A wonderful couple of hours leisurely reading, far too short but a sweet read none the less ! A biography of one of Edinburgh's unsung heroes who was turned into an immortal fictitious character by one of Edinburgh's best-known authors. I'm proud of both of them and as it happens it's the place I was born and grew up in - not in Bell's New Town but in Doyle's less salubrious locale, not 100m from his door to mine.
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