How trail of THE HOUND led to Brum; UNMASKED: THE BASKERVILLE WHO INSPIRED SHERLOCK HOLMES CLASSIC.(Features)

Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England) | February 26, 2006 | Copyright

Byline: BY LORNE JACKSON

A LEADING Sherlock Holmes expert claims The Hound Of The Baskervilles might never have been written if Arthur Conan Doyle had not lived in Birmingham.

Leslie Klinger says the creator of the famous Baker Street sleuth copied the name from the influential 18th century Birmingham printer, John Baskerville.

Although studying for his medical degree in Edinburgh, Doyle spent several months working in the West Midlands from 1879 until 1882.

Based in Aston, he ...

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