Before Baker Street: Joseph Bell and the Making of Sherlock Holmes
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Sherlock Holmes is known the world over, yet the man Arthur Conan Doyle credited as Sherlock's prototype is unsung. The deductive powers of 19th-century doctor Joseph Bell-who read patients' ailments, occupation, and personal habits at a single glance-had a profound influence on medical student Conan Doyle. Author Lindsey Fitzharris recounts how Bell's work took him from ward to witness box as a medical detective.