Dark beginnings of Sherlock Holmes

The detective team of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Dr. Joseph Bell star in this "ingenious" historical mystery (The New York Times Book Review).

As many fans of Sherlock Holmes know, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle found inspiration for the great fictional detective in a brilliant Scottish surgeon named Joseph Bell. In an era when science was not often considered in the course of criminal investigations, Bell's emphasis on observation