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Dr. Joe Bell : model for Sherlock Holmes

Author: Ely Liebow
Publisher: Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green University Popular Press, ©1982.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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In 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, famous almost overnight as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, wrote to his former medical school mentor, Dr. Joseph Bell: "It is to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes." Now the first full-length biography of Joe Bell, as he was affectionately known to all of Edinburgh, has been written. It is a biography for which the world is ready. It turns out that he not only had much in common with the  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Liebow, Ely.
Dr. Joe Bell.
Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green University Popular Press, c1982
(OCoLC)568194064
Named Person: Arthur Conan Doyle; Arthur Conan Doyle; Joseph Bell; Arthur Conan Doyle; Joseph Bell
Material Type: Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ely Liebow
ISBN: 0879721979 9780879721978 0879721987 9780879721985
OCLC Number: 8787955
Description: xv, 269 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Responsibility: Ely Liebow.
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In 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, famous almost overnight as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, wrote to his former medical school mentor, Dr. Joseph Bell: "It is to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes." Now the first full-length biography of Joe Bell, as he was affectionately known to all of Edinburgh, has been written. It is a biography for which the world is ready. It turns out that he not only had much in common with the Great Detective, but also with Conan Doyle. Ely Liebow. Emeritus Professor at Northwestern University and former Sir Hugo (Pres.) of Sir Hugo's Companions in Chicago, had access to the good doctor's private Journal; interviewed his great-grandson; tracked down the son of Joe Bell's daughter's gardener; and spoke with a Kentish Lady (appointed a shepherdess on the Downs by the Crown in WWII) who knew Joe Bell and his family. This volume is required reading for all people interested in Victorian medicine, in Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, and in the history of detective fiction.

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