Conan Doyle's Debt
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Conan Doyle's Debt is an article published in Daily Record & Mail on 22 may 1926.
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It was a Scottish Professor who gave Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whose sixty-seventh birthday this is, the idea of the cleverest detective in fiction. This was Dr. James Bell, under whom the novelist-to-be studied medicine at Edinburgh. Bell was a great exponent of the art of observation. "You are a soldier, and and have served in Bermuda as a non-commissioned officer," he once observed to a patient, who admitted the correctness of the statement.
