Arthur Conan Doyle, the newest physician in the English town of Southsea, grew weary of waiting for patients to walk through the door. Fees earned from magazine articles helped to pay the bills, so he wrote. When he decided to try his hand at a detective story, he remembered the deductive feats of Dr. Joseph Bell, his former medical school instructor. And in that instant, an iconic character was born.
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