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A Study in Contrasts
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A thrilling investigation into the real-life inspiration for Sherlock Holmes, from the fog-bound streets of 19th-century Edinburgh to Gilded Age Manhattan. Read by Robin Laing.
Historian Lindsey Fitzharris investigates the real-life inspiration for Sherlock Holmes, travelling from the fog-bound streets of 19th Century Edinburgh to Gilded Age Manhattan.
As a medical student in 1870s Edinburgh, Arthur Conan Doyle was an eye witness to huge changes in a discipline striving to embrace modernity. At the heart of the emerging field of forensic medicine was inspirational professor, Joseph Bell.
Abridged by Eileen Horne
Read by Robin Laing
Produced by Eilidh McCreadie
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