The writer's own life contained elements that seem closer to the fiction for which he became most famous. Robert Downey and Jude Law play Holmes and WatsonĬonan Doyle is still revered in Crowborough, the town which was his home for over twenty years.Ī statue of him stands at the town's central crossroads, reminding all who pass of the connection to one of the world's most famous fictional detectives. In the end, Holmes returns to keep bees on the Sussex coast. Three more stories, 'The Musgrave Ritual', 'The Sussex Vampire' and 'Five Orange Pips' are set in West Sussex. The story 'Adventure of Black Peter' sees Holmes and Watson staying at the I confess that result has surprised me very much." The tale 'The Valley of Fear' sees Holmes on the trail of a murderer at 'Birlstone Manor', based on "I thought I would try my hand at writing a story where the hero would treat crime as Doctor Bell treated disease and where science would take the place of chance. "Reading some detective stories, I was struck by the fact that their results were obtained in nearly every case by chance." he said. He also found contemporary detective fiction quite unrealistic. He based the character on one of his medical school tutors, Dr Joseph Bell, impressed by his method of closely observing his patients.
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