Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the creation of Holmes

Overture: remembering. Part 1 Dr. Bell and Mr. Doyle : A super-man

Your powers of deduction

Art in the blood

Seven weary steps

Athens of the north

No man of flesh and blood

Ode to opium

Drinking poison

Intemperance

Dr. Conan Doyle, surgeon

A wealth of youth and pluck

The circular tour

The unseen world. Part 2 Prophets and police : The method of Zadig

The footmarks of Poe

How do you know that?

Games of chess, played with live pieces. Part 3 Mr. Holmes and Dr. Watson : Dr. Sacker and Mr. Hope

Bohemians in Baker Street

A little too scientific

The book of life

A basilisk in the desert

A born novelist

The preternatural sagacity of a scientific detective

Truth as death

Watson's brother's watch

Dread of madhouses

Adventures in the Strand

Deerstalker

To my old teacher. Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography and further reading

Index.