Sherlock Holmes on Medicine and Science

by Keith Simpson

A look at Sherlock Holmes medical and scientific skills by a prominent Home Office Pathologist Professor Keith Simpson. Introduction by Isaac Asimov and Appreciation by E. Stanley Palm

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

(Cedric) Keith Simpson. British forensic scientist, head of department at Guy's Hospital, London 1962-72. His evidence sent John Haig (the acid bath murderer) and Neville Heath to the gallows. In 1965 he identified the first "battered baby" murder in England.

Author of:
Forty Years of Murder (1978)
The Mysteries of Life and Death (1979)
Sherlock Holmes on Medicine and Science (1983)

Reviews

[Fred Hughes · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a look at Sherlock Holmes and his skill set under medicine and science. Noted Sci Fi writter, and Sherlockian, Isaac Asimiov starts off with an introduction.

Home Office Pathologist Professor Keith Simpson then goes into the environment at the time that these stories were writen and how the author used what he had to creat the great consulting detective.

A short but insightfull read