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Could Sherlock Holmes' creator also be a killer? Elementary violence: Super sleuth and his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20080726
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Byline: Graham Grant

IT has all the ingredients you would expect of a classic Sherlock Holmes story.

A national newspaper editor dies suddenly and a knight of the realm is suspected of his murder, triggered by infidelity, blackmail and fear of exposure.

But according to one psychologist, author and Holmes enthusiast, this is no fictional plot - and the killer was none other than Holmes' Edinburgh-born creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Dr Rodger Garrick-Steele claims Sir Arthur stole the idea for his most famous Holmes novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles, from his ...

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