Overview

This is the story of a power struggle between two men - one fictional, and one real. In one corner is the master of crime – the greatest detective who never lived, Sherlock Holmes. In the other is writer, physician and spiritualist leader Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Lucy Worsley explores the extraordinary love-hate relationship between author and creation.

Network

• BBC Two

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

• 

  Lucy Worsley

  Self - Host

  3 eps

• 

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Self (archive footage)

  3 eps

• Sue Black

  Self

  1 ep

• Saima Mir

  Self

  1 ep

• Shrabani Basu

Themes

• detective
• history

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