How Sherlock Pulled the Trick James Fisher Now significantly updated

Now significantly updated

dissertation for the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona (Hardin 2001) and has since been amplified and embellished by further research

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How Sherlock Pulled the Trick James Fisher Now significantly updatedA masterful combination of literary study and author biography, How Sherlock Pulled the Trick guides us through the parallel careers of two inseparable men: Sherlock Holmes and his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Reconsidering Holmes in light of Doyle&; s well known belief in Victorian spiritualism, Brian McCuskey argues that the so called scientific detective follows the same circular logic, along the same trail of questionable evidence, that led