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WRITER BASES HIS FICTIONAL DETECTIVE ON REAL PERSON PART 2

YESTERDAY IN PART 1, we learned about Charles Dickens and his Metropolitan Police pal Charles Frederik Field prowling London’s seedier districts. Today, Dickens honors his pal with two fictional personages.  … Continue reading

December 11, 2022 · Leave a comment

WRITER BASES HIS FICTIONAL DETECTIVE ON REAL PERSON PART 1

GEE. IS THIS GOING TO BE another recounting of Arthur Conan Doyle, medical-school mentor Joseph Bell, and Sherlock Holmes? Or Edgar Allan Poe and whoever gave him the idea for … Continue reading

December 10, 2022 · Leave a comment