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Excerpt from A Study in Scarlet: And Other Stories
These methods of Bell impressed Doyle greatly at the time. The impression made was a lasting one. But, while Joseph Bell is the original Sherlock Holmes, another Edinburgh professor had a finger in the pie, so to speak. While Joseph Bell gave Doyle the idea of the character Holmes, the man haps, influenced Doyle in adapting that character to the detection of crime, was Sir Henry Littlejohn. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
