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A review by diana_eveline
Arthur & Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes by Michael Sims
4.0
"During his first year in Southsea, Arthur earned only £154, too little to even require a tax payment, as he noted on a form to the government. The form was returned with a scrawled commentary: Most unsatisfactory. Arthur wrote underneath those words : I entirely agree. He then mailed it back."
Despite this being a rather challenging read, I loved it! I was especially surprised to hear that Arthur Conan Doyle had been out to dinner with Oscar Wilde and that it was after that very dinner, Wilde had decided to write The Picture of Dorian Gray.
It is so interesting to see where Conan Doyle got the concept of his characters from. I loved to read some about a few important figures in his life but the information about those figures could have been a bit more brief. I was expecting to read a little more about the writer himself. Sims doesn't even go all the way through the publication and writing process of all the Sherlock novels. A bit of a shame, really. I did enjoy it massively and would recommend it to anyone who is familiar with Conan Doyle's work!
Despite this being a rather challenging read, I loved it! I was especially surprised to hear that Arthur Conan Doyle had been out to dinner with Oscar Wilde and that it was after that very dinner, Wilde had decided to write The Picture of Dorian Gray.
It is so interesting to see where Conan Doyle got the concept of his characters from. I loved to read some about a few important figures in his life but the information about those figures could have been a bit more brief. I was expecting to read a little more about the writer himself. Sims doesn't even go all the way through the publication and writing process of all the Sherlock novels. A bit of a shame, really. I did enjoy it massively and would recommend it to anyone who is familiar with Conan Doyle's work!