Some fictional characters become so iconic that they eclipse the people who created them. That was the fate of Arthur Conan Doyle. Long before he was celebrated as a physician, historian, spiritualist, or even a knight, he had become, in the public imagination, the father of one man alone: Sherlock Holmes. What readers adored, however, became an increasing burden for Doyle. By the early 1890s, he had grown deeply frustrated with the detective’s …
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