![]() And then there was Dr Joseph Bell, who had been one of Doyle’s tutors when he was studying medicine at Edinburgh University. He also admired ‘the neat dovetailing’ of the plots of Gaboriau’s crime novels. From boyhood, Edgar Allan Poe’s Auguste Dupin, the rational thinker from Murders in the Rue Morgue had been one of his heroes. It was during these early scribblings that he began to pull together various threads from his past influences. ![]() In the longueurs between patients, he tried his hand at constructing a detective story, one in which the sleuth would reach his conclusions by deductive reasoning and not by accident. Apart from his medical concerns, Arthur, then twenty-seven had literary ambitions. He had a smart brass plaque outside but very few patients inside. In 1886 Arthur Conan Doyle was an impoverished doctor with a small practice in Southsea. ![]() In the first of a four-part series, David Stuart Davies begins with the novel that introduced the world’s first consulting detective. A Study in Scarlet / The Sign of the Four ![]()
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