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From: LawNow
Date: 20060201
Author:Normey, Robert

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle may have created the world's greatest and most famous detective but he never claimed to have the deductive powers of Sherlock Holmes. This didn't stop people from asking the celebrity author to help them solve true crime matters. By 1906, when Conan Doyle was 47, he was inundated with requests for assistance. Like his fictional detective, he possessed a powerful memory and a vast knowledge of crime. Once, when he read a news item of a young bride found drowned in her bath tub, he noted a remarkable similarity to an earlier drowning. He contacted Scotland ...

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