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Explore the curious relationship between detective and author.

Historian Lucy Worsley investigates the love-hate relationship between Sherlock Holmes, and the complex man who created him, Arthur Conan Doyle.

Sherlock Holmes is the most famous detective in the world. He made his author, Arthur Conan Doyle, rich and famous. But the writer came to hate his fictional character. Through the changing world of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, Lucy Worsley explores why.

Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs Doyle

LUCY WORSLEY’S HOLMES VS. DOYLE, is a three-part series featuring the popular British historian and lifelong Sherlock Holmes fan who seeks to answer why author Arthur Conan Doyle came to despise the character that made him rich and famous. Throughout the series, Worsley explores the parallel lives of Doyle and Holmes in the historical context of their times. From the dying years of Victorian England, through the imperial crisis of the Boer war, the optimism of the early Edwardian years, to the trauma of the First World War, Arthur and Sherlock lived through them all.

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