The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes
Contributors: Hardwick, Mollie, joint author.
Edition: [1st ed. in the U.S.A.]
Publisher: Doubleday & Company
Published: 1964
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y., USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 92
Copyright date: 1964
Subjects: Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930.; Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character)
Description: The strong appeal Sherlock Holmes still exerts on millions of readers all over the world stems in larg part from characteristics he shares with his illustrious creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 

For every admirer of Sherlock Holmes, this unique dual profile of the author and his best known literary creation shows how Doyle developed the names and attributes of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, and most interesting of all, how Doyle pursued justice personally in behalf on hundreds of people who came to him for help in criminal matters.

In two famous cases he was called in long after the evidence was stale to save men who had been convicted of crimes they did not commit, and in both instances he succeeded in overturning the verdicts against the strenuous objections of complacent but misguided authority.

In THE MAN WHO WAS SHERLOCK HOLMES, as they did in their popular Sherlock Holmes Companion, the Hardwicks open up for all Conan Doyle readers another dimension, not only of the famous detective, but of the incomparable achievements of his creator and progenitor.

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Table of contents: title: In the beginning --; title: An auspicious meeting --; title: The birth of an immortal --; title: Attempted murder --; title: Into action --; title: Return from the dead --; title: The case of the myopic Parsee --; title: The case of the diamond crescent --; title: Man of many causes --; title: A case of identity --; title: Index.