HANK'S RECOMMENDATIONS, 05/15/12:
DR. BELL AND MR. DOYLE: THE DARK BEGINNINGS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
— So wildly popular and convincing were the Sherlock Holmes stories and
novels that many people assumed—as some do to this day—that Sherlock
Holmes was real. As we know, fiction can be more convincing than the
truth.
But the special angle of this captivating and suspenseful
entry into the extensive Sherlock Holmes film canon is, indeed, a
real-life approach, only it has to do with the author and not his
invention. The movie depicts how the Sherlock Holmes books came to be
written from a thrillingly pivotal period of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s
own life.
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