Killing Sherlock Lucy Worsley on the Case of Conan Doyle
Killing Sherlock Lucy Worsley on the Case of Conan Doyle Trailer HD - - 2023 - BBC Docuseries - Plot Synopsis: This is the story of a power struggle between two men - one fictional, and one real. In one corner is the master of crime – the greatest detective who never lived, Sherlock Holmes. In the other is writer, physician and spiritualist leader Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Lucy Worsley explores the extraordinary love-hate relationship between author and creation.
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00:00 Sherlock Holmes is the world's most famous detective.
00:06 Oh, and here's an address with a powerful spell to it.
00:11 Baker Street.
00:13 Admired for his intellect...
00:16 You had an almost infallible detective who offered certainty answers.
00:20 ..adored for his skills of deduction...
00:23 It's a little bit of a precursor to what we call forensic science.
00:27 ..he originally appears in four novels and 56 stories.
00:33 And he pretty much always solves the mystery at the heart of each one of them.
00:40 But there's one huge mystery that still remains.
00:44 Why didn't Sherlock Holmes' creator, Arthur Conan Doyle,
00:48 love him as much as the rest of us do?
00:51 You can see the dilemma that he's in,
00:54 because he doesn't want to be stereotyped only as the writer of Sherlock Holmes.
00:58 I think of slowing Holmes.
01:01 He takes my mind from better things.
01:04 In this series, I'm tracking down clues and evaluating the evidence...
01:09 Where is it? Where is it?
01:12 ..to discover where creator and creation diverged.
01:17 He escaped from Conan Doyle very early.
01:21 Escaped.
01:22 It just sort of blew up with Houdini just eventually saying,
01:25 "I just think this guy's senile, he's sort of bamboozled easily."
01:29 I read my first Sherlock Holmes story when I was about nine,
01:34 and what I loved about him was his compelling weirdness
01:39 and the strange cases he took on.
01:42 But I've come to think that the most curious case of all of them
01:46 is this love-hate relationship that existed between the great detective
01:51 and the man who invented him.
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