Table of Contents
Overture: Remembering 1
Part 1 Dr. Bell and Mr. Doyle
1 A Super-Man 7
2 Your Powers of Deduction 12
3 Art in the Blood 20
4 Seven Weary Steps 25
5 Athens of the North 30
6 No Man of Flesh and Blood 35
7 Ode to Opium 40
8 Drinking Poison 45
9 Intemperance 51
10 Dr. Conan Doyle, Surgeon 58
11 A Wealth of Youth and Pluck 63
12 The Circular Tour 69
13 The Unseen World 74
Part 2 Prophets and Police
14 The Method of Zadig 83
15 The Footmarks of Poe 87
16 How Do You Know That? 95
17 Games of Chess, Played with Live Pieces 99
Part 3 Mr. Holmes and Dr. Watson
18 Dr. Sacker and Mr. Hope 111
19 Bohemians in Baker Street 119
20 A Little Too Scientific 125
21 The Book of Life 133
22 A Basilisk in the Desert 137
23 A Born Novelist 144
24 The Preternatural Sagacity of a Scientific Detective 151
25 Truth as Death 158
26 Watson's Brother's Watch 166
27 Dread of Madhouses 174
28 Adventures in the Strand 179
29 Deerstalker 184
30 To My Old Teacher 191
Acknowledgments 199
Notes 201
Bibliography and Further Reading 223
Index 235