SHERLOCK HOLMES

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 141, 18 June 1927, Page 9

SHERLOCK HOLMES

CONAN DOYLE'S OPINION OF

HIS CREATION

LONDON,' 16th June. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who has Wiled Sherlock Holmes i» a new publication, "The Case-book on Sherlock Holmes," discussing hid reasons, says: "I hate the old man. I was tired of him from the beginning. He represented p. type of literature in which I was little interested, but it was an excellent way for a struggling young man to get a foothold and money. Most flctjon about detectiveß reaches a conejuBion that the problem is either an accident or extraordinary owing to unexplained processes. I decided that the thing must be reduced to a science, and furthermore, that detectives with stupid names such as 'Ferret Sharp' were not desirable. Holmes'* methods have, been treated with, great respect in France, where he has been taken seriously. I am proud of the fact that a department of the Lyons police has been called the 'Salle Conan Doyle.' " The author's attitude towards his character may bo summed up as a cold, scientific detachment', and he simply used him in order to tell an interesting story. .