{"product_id":"sleuth-hound-the-case-of-the-real-sherlock-holmes-hardcover","title":"Sleuth-Hound: The Case of the Real Sherlock Holmes - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLindsey Fitzharris\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe untold story of the Edinburgh doctor who became Arthur Conan Doyle's model for Sherlock Holmes, and his adventures in the criminal underworld of Victorian Britain. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThroughout nineteenth-century Edinburgh, the surgeon Joseph Bell was known for his extraordinary talent for detection and diagnosis. To the amazement of onlookers at the Royal Infirmary, he could read a patient's ailments, occupation, and personal habits from a single glance. Though such deductive powers were all quite \"elementary\" to Bell, they had a profound influence on the medical student and budding writer Arthur Conan Doyle. Soon enough, Bell's methods helped spark the creation of fiction's most iconic detective. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince Sherlock Holmes first appeared in 1887, he has become a global phenomenon. Yet the man Conan Doyle credited as Sherlock's prototype has slipped into the shadows. In \u003ci\u003eSleuth-Hound\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris brings Bell center stage, recounting how his work took him from ward to witness box as a medical detective probing murder and misdeeds. He worked closely and covertly with the police surgeon Henry Duncan Littlejohn and a pioneering ballistics expert named Dr. Watson, and even collaborated with Conan Doyle to overturn a homicide conviction. Bell's forensic investigations took him from gaslit alleyways to Gilded Age drawing rooms, put him on the trail of poisoners and child killers, and even drew him into the hunt for Jack the Ripper. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy scrutinizing a scratch on a desk, a trace of cigar ash, or the slightest peculiarity of a man's gait, Bell could turn the smallest clues into revelations. His sharp mind forever changed the way we read bodies, detect crimes, and serve justice.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLindsey Fitzharris\u003c\/b\u003e is a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author whose books include \u003ci\u003eThe Butchering Art\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Facemaker\u003c\/i\u003e. Along with her husband, Adrian Teal, she also writes children's nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eDead Ends!: Flukes, Flops, and Failures That Sparked Medical Marvels\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePlague-Busters!: Medicine's Battles with History's Deadliest Diseases\u003c\/i\u003e. She holds a PhD in the history of science and medicine from the University of Oxford and has written for \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Lancet\u003c\/i\u003e, and other major publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.13 x 9.18 x 6.35 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 20, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67651866591506,"sku":"9780374609498","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/2211\/5346\/files\/q0HKa6LIuM9780374609498.webp?v=1793325096","url":"https:\/\/ckbookstore.net\/products\/sleuth-hound-the-case-of-the-real-sherlock-holmes-hardcover","provider":"CK BOOKSTORE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}