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Books: Sherlock Holmes the aesthete Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle By Daniel Stashower ALLEN LANE pounds 18.99
From: The Independent - London
Date: 20000227
Author:Thomas Hodgkinson
Can Arthur Conan Doyle's most enduring creation be ascribed to his admiration for Oscar Wilde? Thomas Hodgkinson is convinced
Was Wilde an inspiration for the character of Sherlock Holmes? The two writers, Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle, met in the Langham Hotel, in London, in 1889, at the invitation of Joseph Marshall Stoddart, editor of Philadelphia's Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Both agreed to write a novel for the mag: Doyle eventually produced the second Holmes outing, The Sign of Four, Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray.
In the first Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet, the model for ...
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