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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20000130
Author:Dennis Drabelle

THE DOCTOR AND THE DETECTIVE

A Biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

By Martin Booth

St. Martin's. 371 pp. $27.95

Reviewed by Dennis Drabelle

"I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity it is certainly beyond me," confesses Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot." "Yet we must exhaust all natural explanations before we fall back upon such a theory as this." The theory in question is that a diabolical force has invaded a closed room, killing a grown woman and making off with the sanity of her two card-playing companions. The story ends, of course, with Holmes's caution ...

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