"Sherlock Holmes's" £62,000

From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia

"Sherlock Holmes's" £62,000 is an article published in the Weekly Dispatch on 4 february 1912.


"Sherlock Holmes's" £62,000

Weekly Dispatch (4 february 1912, p. 10)

The original of Conan Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes." Dr. Joseph Bell, of Melville-crescent, Edinburgh, and of Mauricewood, Milton-bridge, Midlothian, a former president of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, for over twenty years editor of the Edinburgh Medical Journal, who died on October 4 last, aged 74 years, left personal estate in the United Kingdom valued at £62,654.