KILLING SHERLOCK: LUCY WORSLEY ON THE CASE OF CONAN DOYLE
BBC Two
Sunday 10 December
Historian and presenter Lucy Worsley has long been drawn to Sherlock Holmes’ “compelling weirdness”. But as her new three-part series explores, the detective’s creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, didn’t share her devotion. Indeed, by 1893 he had “come to hate” Holmes.
Fortunately, the author had come up with a way to get rid of his creation once and for all – or so he thought. In the