Killing Sherlock Lucy Worsley on the Case of Conan Doyle Trailer

Killing Sherlock Lucy Worsley on the Case of Conan Doyle Trailer - official trailer HD

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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

00:37 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...

01:10 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 Escapes.

01:23 It just sort of blew up with Houdini just eventually saying,

01:26 "I just think this guy's senile, he's sort of bamboozled easily."

01:30 I read my first Sherlock Holmes story when I was about nine,

01:35 and what I loved about him was his compelling weirdness

01:40 and the strange cases he took on.

01:43 But I've come to think that the most curious case of all of them

01:47 is this love-hate relationship that existed

01:51 between the great detective and the man who invented him.

01:55 (THEME MUSIC)

01:58 (dramatic music)

02:00 (dramatic music)