The Resource The Ardlamont mystery : the real-life story behind the creation of Sherlock Holmes, Daniel Smith
The Ardlamont mystery : the real-life story behind the creation of Sherlock Holmes, Daniel Smith
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The item The Ardlamont mystery : the real-life story behind the creation of Sherlock Holmes, Daniel Smith represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evanston Public Library.
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- Summary
- "December, 1893 ... In Scotland, a sensational real-life murder trial is playing out. Alfred Monson, a scion of the aristocracy, is charged with killing a young army lieutenant, Cecil Hambrough, on the sprawling Ardlamont estate. The worlds of crime fiction and crime fact are about to collide spectacularly. Among the key prosecution witnesses ... were two esteemed Edinburgh doctors, Joseph Bell and Henry Littlejohn. Bell--Doyle's tutor when the author studied medicine in the 1870s--had recently been unmasked as the inspiration behind the creation of Sherlock Holmes. But what the public did not know was that Bell and Littlejohn--a pioneer in the emerging field of forensic detection--had actually been investigating crimes together for more than twenty years ... In The Ardlamont Mystery, author Daniel Smith re-examines the evidence of the case that gripped Victorian Britain, putting forward his own theory as to why Cecil Hambrough was murdered. Outlining the key roles of the men whose powers of deduction and detection had so inspired Doyle, Smith explores the real-world origins of Sherlock Holmes through the prism of a mystery as engrossing as any case the Great Detective ever tackled"--Dust jacket flap
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 254 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781782438458
- Label
- The Ardlamont mystery : the real-life story behind the creation of Sherlock Holmes
- Title
- The Ardlamont mystery
- Title remainder
- the real-life story behind the creation of Sherlock Holmes
- Statement of responsibility
- Daniel Smith
- Subject
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- Hambrough, Windsor Dudley Cecil, 1873-1893 -- Death
- Littlejohn, Henry, (Henry Duncan), 1826-1914
- Monson, Alfred J., (Alfred John), 1860- -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Bell, Joseph, 1837-1911
- Trials (Murder) -- Scotland | Edinburgh -- History -- 19th century
- True crime stories
- Murder -- Scotland | Argyllshire -- History -- 19th century
- Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930 -- Characters | Sherlock Holmes
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "December, 1893 ... In Scotland, a sensational real-life murder trial is playing out. Alfred Monson, a scion of the aristocracy, is charged with killing a young army lieutenant, Cecil Hambrough, on the sprawling Ardlamont estate. The worlds of crime fiction and crime fact are about to collide spectacularly. Among the key prosecution witnesses ... were two esteemed Edinburgh doctors, Joseph Bell and Henry Littlejohn. Bell--Doyle's tutor when the author studied medicine in the 1870s--had recently been unmasked as the inspiration behind the creation of Sherlock Holmes. But what the public did not know was that Bell and Littlejohn--a pioneer in the emerging field of forensic detection--had actually been investigating crimes together for more than twenty years ... In The Ardlamont Mystery, author Daniel Smith re-examines the evidence of the case that gripped Victorian Britain, putting forward his own theory as to why Cecil Hambrough was murdered. Outlining the key roles of the men whose powers of deduction and detection had so inspired Doyle, Smith explores the real-world origins of Sherlock Holmes through the prism of a mystery as engrossing as any case the Great Detective ever tackled"--Dust jacket flap
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1976-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Smith, Daniel
- Dewey number
- 823.8
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- portraits
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HV6535.G5
- LC item number
- S65 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Monson, Alfred J.
- Hambrough, Windsor Dudley Cecil
- Littlejohn, Henry
- Bell, Joseph
- Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Murder
- Trials (Murder)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The Ardlamont mystery : the real-life story behind the creation of Sherlock Holmes, Daniel Smith
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-246) and index
- Carrier category
- unmediated
- Carrier category code
-
- n
- Carrier MARC source
- rdamedia
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 254 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781782438458
- Media category
- volume
- Media MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Media type code
-
- nc
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- System control number
-
- 1979400
- (OCoLC)987893480
- 2094442
- Label
- The Ardlamont mystery : the real-life story behind the creation of Sherlock Holmes, Daniel Smith
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-246) and index
- Carrier category
- unmediated
- Carrier category code
-
- n
- Carrier MARC source
- rdamedia
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 254 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781782438458
- Media category
- volume
- Media MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Media type code
-
- nc
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- System control number
-
- 1979400
- (OCoLC)987893480
- 2094442
Subject
- Hambrough, Windsor Dudley Cecil, 1873-1893 -- Death
- Littlejohn, Henry, (Henry Duncan), 1826-1914
- Monson, Alfred J., (Alfred John), 1860- -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Bell, Joseph, 1837-1911
- Trials (Murder) -- Scotland | Edinburgh -- History -- 19th century
- True crime stories
- Murder -- Scotland | Argyllshire -- History -- 19th century
- Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930 -- Characters | Sherlock Holmes
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