Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle.

Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle

Fact and Fiction

Doyle's desire to distance himself from his own creation, Sherlock Holmes, after the character's apparent death at the Reichenbach Falls; how far Doyle went to make himself the hero of his own story. (56 minutes)

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Sat, 5/10 at 11:05 pm on Austin PBS HDTV

Doctor and Detective

The origins of Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's early life as a medical student in Edinburgh, and the author's growing disenchantment with his detective. (56 minutes)

Sat, 5/17 at 11:05 pm on Austin PBS HDTV

Fact and Fiction

Doyle's desire to distance himself from his own creation, Sherlock Holmes, after the character's apparent death at the Reichenbach Falls; how far Doyle went to make himself the hero of his own story. (55 minutes)