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“In one letter, Conan Doyle thanked Bell for further story suggestions.”
“Conan Doyle,” profiling the author and, for the first time in print, naming Joseph Bell as the real Sherlock Holmes.”
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“Before long, the conversation turned to his time as a medical student at the University of Edinburgh.”
“They lit cigars, and settled into their chairs to discuss Conan Doyle’s childhood and his early steps into adulthood.”
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“What better place to reveal the mysterious professor’s identity than in the very magazine responsible for making the fictional detective an international sensation?”
“What Conan Doyle had most feared was about to be unleashed upon his old professor.”
“Each day he made up to twenty house calls, trundling from appointment to appointment in his elegant barouche.”
“Bell also secured a fourth revenue stream for a time by working as a medical examiner for an insurance company.”
“The next month, The Strand ran a feature entitled “A Day with Dr.”
““Your permission will rejoice the cockles of Mr Harry How’s heart,” Conan Doyle replied.”
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“The deserter-cobbler is admirable, and I wish I had a dozen more such cases.” In the same letter, Conan Doyle also told Bell that he was “insatiable for material,” as he had committed to writing twelve more stories for The Strand .”
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“The subject is endless: the tattoo marks on hand or arm will tell their own tale as to voyages; the ornaments on the watch chain of the successful settler will tell you where he made his money.”
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“Conan Doyle’s genius and intense imagination has on this slender basis made his detective stories a distinctly new departure, but he owes much less than he thinks to yours truly Joseph Bell.”
“When the minister laughed heartily at the punchline, Bell shot to his feet and pointed a stern finger at his patient, as if he had caught him in a lie.”
“This was driven in part by concern over the prevalence of diseases such as smallpox, tuberculosis, and cholera.”
“He once correctly identified a man sent to him by insurers as a former soldier.”