... was the perfect Victorian. The main character was based on one of Conan Doyle's professors while he was at university, John Bell. Bell was an expert in the use of deductive reasoning which Conan Doyle found very impressive and obviously very inspiring as he used these same principles when creating Sherlock Holmes. Others were obviously inspired by this way of thinking as ... ...

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