Arthur Conan Doyle was immensely self-proclaimed in the knowledge that Dr. Joseph Bell was the inspiration for his detective, ...

Sherlock Holmes is one of literature's most indelible characters ... Holmes aficionados know well the story of Conan Doyle and his muse, Dr. Joseph Bell. Bell was Doyle's university professor at ...

"It is to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes," wrote Arthur Conan Doyle to his former professor and mentor, Dr. Joseph Bell, in 1892. A distinguished physician and professor of medicine at Edinburgh ...