Killing Sherlock: Lucy Worsley on the Case of Conan Doyle | show | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Over the course of three episodes, historian and lifelong Sherlock Holmes fan Lucy Worsley investigates the extraordinar | dHNfd19tMUJ5OHlmb2M

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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. He takes my mind from better things.

01:03 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.

01:20 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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