The Men Who Were Sherlock Holmes: A True-Life Victorian Murder Mystery by Smith, Daniel

The Men Who Were Sherlock Holmes: A True-Life Victorian Murder Mystery

The sensational story of the real-life origins of the fictional Sherlock Holmes - and how crime fiction...
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Author: Daniel Smith
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The Men Who Were Sherlock Holmes: A True-Life Victorian Murder Mystery by Smith, Daniel

The Men Who Were Sherlock Holmes: A True-Life Victorian Murder Mystery

€25,47

The Men Who Were Sherlock Holmes: A True-Life Victorian Murder Mystery

€25,47
Author: Daniel Smith
Format: Paperback
Language: English

The sensational story of the real-life origins of the fictional Sherlock Holmes - and how crime fiction and crime fact collided in a case that gripped Victorian Britain

In 1893, young army officer Cecil Hambrough was murdered at the sprawling Ardlamont estate in Scotland, unleashing one of the most gripping court cases Victorian Britain had ever known. Even more remarkably, the case brought together two pioneering forensic experts - Joseph Bell and Henry Littlejohn - two men upon whom Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes happened to be based. It is their involvement in the Ardlamont affair that reveals how the world's most famous detective came to be: the worlds of crime fiction and crime fact were about to collide spectacularly.

In this extraordinary book, Daniel Smith outlines the key roles of the two men whose powers of deduction had so inspired Doyle and explores the real-world origins of Sherlock Holmes through the prism of a mystery as engrossing as any case the Great Detective ever tackled.

Author: Daniel Smith
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Published: 11/12/2024
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781789296297

About the Author
Daniel Smith is a non-fiction author and editor who has written across a range of subjects, including politics, economics and social history. He is the author of The Little Book of Big Ideas: 150 Concepts and Breakthroughs that Transformed History and the 'How to Think Like ...' series for Michael O'Mara Books, which has been published in 25 languages and sold over 500,000 copies worldwide. He is also a scriptwriter for the award-winning podcast series, Real Dictators and A Short History of . . . He lives in London with his wife and two children.

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