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Starred Review on October 1, 2018 | Arts and Humanities
Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes, intrigues us because he seems to "embody the past and belong to the present," writes Sandford (Houdini and Conan Doyle). Considering the criminal cases and contemporary causes that engaged Holmes's author throughout his prolific life (1859–1930), many of which crept into his fiction, one can believe the same of Conan Doyle. Never one to flinch from an intellectual ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More