Sleuth-Hound: The Victorian Medical Detective Who Inspired Sherlock Holmes

by Lindsey Fitzharris

The Victorian Medical Detective Who Inspired Sherlock Holmes by Lindsey Fitzharris is a forthcoming title from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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Expected publication November 10, 2026

About the author

I am the author of The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine, which won the PEN/E. O. Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing and has been translated into multiple languages. My TV series The Curious Life and Death of . . . aired on the Smithsonian Channel in 2020. I contribute regularly to The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, and other notable publications, and hold a doctorate in the History of Science and Medicine from the University of Oxford. My next book, The Facemaker, will be released in June. It follows the harrowing story of Harold Gillies, the pioneering surgeon who rebuilt soldiers' faces during the First World War.