Word: sherlock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adrian Conan Doyle, younger son of the creator of Sherlock Holmes, himself set pen to paper in an attempt to settle the aging argument about the identity of Sherlock's prototype. To the London Daily Telegraph he wrote: "The fact is my father, himself, was Sherlock Holmes. It was true that Sir Arthur was absentminded and often put on one brown shoe and one black shoe, but like Sherlock Holmes the accuracy of my father's deductions was startling...
...soon over. The small-fry cases proved to be two-day stories at best. The Lonergan case, born in a palace, died in an alley. Its climax: estranged Husband Lonergan, who had fled to Toronto and been brought back by plane, had pulled the job. It took no Sherlock Holmes to untangle a crime whose tawdry details petered out into unprintable and nearly unprintable gossip...
William Gillette, the theater's late great Sherlock Holmes, was presumably at ease about the overwhelming stone castle and miniature railway he left on his hilltop estate at Hadlyme, Conn. The borzoi-faced star had been the live-steaming engineer on his three-mile Connecticut Nutmeg & Great Western, whipped his friends wildly about in its little observation cars. When he died in 1937 at the age of 71, he declared in his will: "I would consider it more than unfortunate for me should I find myself doomed after death to a continued consciousness of the behavior of mankind...
Since then Author Train has written almost a hundred Tutt stories. Some of them (says Tutt) have become as familiar to lawyers as folk tales, have been cited from the bench as quasi-legal authority, have helped many a candidate pass his bar examinations. In fact, like Sherlock Holmes, Ephraim Tutt has become more famous than his creator. So by writing Lawyer Tutt's autobiography, Author Train was able to achieve more than by writing (or rewriting) his own (My Day in Court...
...personal tragedies have turned many a grieving man & woman to spiritualism. But until Lord Dowding spoke up, there have been no such notable conversions of late as those of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sir Oliver Lodge during World War I. After his conversion, the zealous author of Sherlock Holmes toured Britain exhibiting spiritualistic snapshots in which he pointed out blurred spots that he claimed were pixies frolicking in a hazy landscape...