Mr. Holmes

Review by Pamela Zoslov

No one was more surprised by the worldwide popularity of Sherlock Holmes than his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, who had conceived Holmes as new kind of detective, one who used scientific methods to solve his cases. Conan Doyle had trained as a doctor and clerked in Edinburgh for Dr. Joseph Bell, a doctor with the ability to diagnose patients solely through the power of observation. Conan Doyle modeled Holmes after Dr. Bell, who took pride in having been the model for Holmes and assisted in police investigations in Scotland.