SHERLOCK HOLMES’S IDENTITY
LONDON, October 28
There lias been some controversy regarding the identity of the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous character Sherlock Holmes —whether Holmes was based on Dr. Bell, of Edinburgh University, or the strange Dr. Budd, or was merely rooted in the influence of Edgar Allen Poe. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s son, Adrian, in a letter to “The Times,” says: “The fact is my father himself was Sherlock Holmes.” He refers to his father’s extraordinary powers of perception, and says that he solved many problems that baffled the police.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 November 1943, Page 2
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