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    Was the character Sherlock Holmes based on a real person?

    Question #20135. Asked by Watson. (Jun 29 02 2:11 AM)


    bpykh

    		One of Arthur Conan Doyle teachers in Edinburgh University where he studied medicine was 'Dr Joseph Bell, whose amazing deductions concerning the history of his patients were to provide the ideas behind the deductive skills of Sherlock Holmes'.
    http://www.ash-tree.bc.ca/acdsbio.html

    Jun 29 02, 4:42 AM

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