Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle

Sherlock Holmes is the most famous detective in the world. He made his author, Arthur Conan Doyle, rich and famous. But the writer came to hate his fictional character. Through the changing world of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, Lucy Worsley explores why.

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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle

Doctor and Detective

Sunday
Dec 28

7:00 pm

1 Hour

The origins of Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's early life as a medical student in Edinburgh, and the author's growing disenchantment with his detective.

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