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After Conan Doyle dedicated The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes to his old Edinburgh University lecturer Dr Joseph Bell.
The sinister real life murder that inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to write Sherlock Holmes has been revealed in a new book.
Author Christopher Sandford has drawn remarkable parallels between the cases solved by the fictional detective and a real life crime Doyle encountered in his youth.
When Doyle was a seven-year-old schoolboy at Newington Academy in Edinburgh, a French émigré named Eugene Chantrelle was hired to teach Modern Languages there.
A decade later, Chantrelle was hanged for poisoning his wife.
Pic: TheHistoryPress/BNPS
After Conan Doyle dedicated The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes to his old Edinburgh University lecturer Dr Joseph Bell.
The sinister real life murder that inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to write Sherlock Holmes has been revealed in a new book.
Author Christopher Sandford has drawn remarkable parallels between the cases solved by the fictional detective and a real life crime Doyle encountered in his youth.
When Doyle was a seven-year-old schoolboy at Newington Academy in Edinburgh, a French émigré named Eugene Chantrelle was hired to teach Modern Languages there.
A decade later, Chantrelle was hanged for poisoning his wife.
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