Sleuth-Hound (S7E10)

Today, we're joined by medical historian Lindsey Fitzharris to talk about her new book, Sleuth-Hound. It's a biography of Joseph Bell, the real Scottish physician who inspired the fictional character of Sherlock Holmes. As Lindsey shows, Bell, like Holmes, acted as a consulting detective for Edinburgh police while they investigated murders.

Illustration from the satirical magazine Puck depicting Arthur Conan Doyle as shackled to Sherlock Holmes, the fictional character he could never manage to escape.