Watson and Sherlock Holmes.ĭoyle stayed at the Duchy Hotel in Princetown-now the High Moorland Visitor Centre, complete with Holmes display-looking towards the grim hulk of Dartmoor Prison. When Doyle lived close by, at Crow-borough, he frequently came to take part in séances at the 17th-century moated manor house, and in The Valley of Fear (1915) Groombridge becomes Birlstone Manor, the scene of murder: The only approach to the house was over a drawbridge across a “beautiful broad moat, as still and luminous as quicksilver in the cold winter sunshine.”īasil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, possible the most famous pairing of Dr.
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Menus feature Doylean dishes like “A Scandal in Bohemia” duck and you can view a recreation of Holmes’ study and sitting room, plus other artifacts: Including copies of Sidney Paget’s noted illustrations from the Strand Magazine which serialized the Sherlock Holmes tales ( Away from London, wander Groombridge Place Gardens & Enchanted Forest in Kent. You can also join Original London Walks, which does a popular trade in guiding visitors to scenes of Sherlockian significance: Charing Cross where Holmes caught a spy, the alleys of the Strand, Covent Garden where the Christmas goose was procured in “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle” and so forth ( Investigations reach a fitting conclusion at The Sherlock Holmes pub and restaurant on Northumberland Street, formerly the hotel in which Sir Henry Baskerville stayed when he came to claim his inheritance in The Hound of the Baskervilles. Equally memorable are the stories’ Victorian landscapes of yellow-fogged, gas-lit London, dashing hansom cabs and England’s wild, Gothic countryside. Such laconic exchanges have fans gleefully throwing their deerstalker hats in the air. “To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time,” Holmes replies. “Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?” asks the inspector in “The Adventure of Silver Blaze,” the Dartmoor-based tale of a vanished racehorse. Sherlock was no prosaic “Plod” he was a pipe-smoking aesthete with a cool, creative touch: Readers became hooked by the briskly moving, tight puzzles, and the Holmes-Watson double act. Lecoq tales, Doyle added the “science” of detailed observation and classification that he had learned as an Edinburgh medical student: An innovation perfectly in tune with the progressive, Darwinian age.
Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s detective Dupin and the neat dovetailing of plots in Emile Gaboriau’s M. His enduring fame, however, rests on the inscrutable “consulting detective,” Sherlock Holmes. Edinburgh-born Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) penned historical novels, science fiction and works on spiritualism during his prolific careeer.
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