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Sherlock Holmes Day 22 May is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s birthday (1859-1930). Doyle is best known for his creation of the detective Sherlock Holmes who appears in over 50 short stories. Doyle's first work featuring Holmes and Dr. Watson, A Study in Scarlet, was written in 3 weeks when he was 27 and Holmes was modelled on his former university teacher Joseph Bell.
After huge success with his Sherlock stories Doyle began to believe they were stopping him writing ‘serious works’. "He takes my mind from better things." he wrote, so in 1893, to dedicate more time to his historical novels, Doyle had Holmes and Professor Moriarty plunge to their deaths together down the Reichenbach Falls in the story The Final Problem. Public outcry led him to resurrect Holmes in 1901 in the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles claiming it was only Moriarty who had died going over the falls.
Arthur Conan Doyle's links to Lewisham are a little tenuous - his second wife, Jean, daughter of James Blyth Leckie lived at Glebe House, 10 The Glebe, SE3, and Sherlock Holmes visits Lee twice, once in The Man with the Twisted Lip in which he called at The Cedars and once in The Retired Colourman.
You can watch and listen to The Man with the Twisted Lip – read and filmed by Andrew Mohammed on Facebook and Youtube.
More details about Arthur Conan Doyle can be found on our online resources.
After huge success with his Sherlock stories Doyle began to believe they were stopping him writing ‘serious works’. "He takes my mind from better things." he wrote, so in 1893, to dedicate more time to his historical novels, Doyle had Holmes and Professor Moriarty plunge to their deaths together down the Reichenbach Falls in the story The Final Problem. Public outcry led him to resurrect Holmes in 1901 in the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles claiming it was only Moriarty who had died going over the falls.
Arthur Conan Doyle's links to Lewisham are a little tenuous - his second wife, Jean, daughter of James Blyth Leckie lived at Glebe House, 10 The Glebe, SE3, and Sherlock Holmes visits Lee twice, once in The Man with the Twisted Lip in which he called at The Cedars and once in The Retired Colourman.
You can watch and listen to The Man with the Twisted Lip – read and filmed by Andrew Mohammed on Facebook and Youtube.
More details about Arthur Conan Doyle can be found on our online resources.
Sherlock Holmes and other Arthur Conan Doyle Ebooks and
eaudio books can be found at:
https://library.bolindadigital.com/lewisham
https://library.bolindadigital.com/lewisham
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Andrew Mohammed was born in Lewisham, raised and educated in Lewisham, and even though he no longer lives there, he continues to work in Lewisham for almost 20 years now. He enjoys reading Doyle, Dick and King’
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