How Sherlock Holmes Killed his Author



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Sherlock Holmes may have been the greatest detective of all time, but that doesn’t mean he was above murder. And his sole victim? The one who suffered the most?

His author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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41 thoughts on “How Sherlock Holmes Killed his Author”

  1. This is why I never want to be a gamer for money. I am decent at gaming,nothing too special, but i would never game for money becsuse I would most likelly lose joy and go insane from NEEDING to play games.

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  2. Don’t you think that if people were less condescending and let him have liberty to do what he ACTUALLY wanted to do, then maybe just maybe we could’ve had something better than Sherlock Holmes. A variety of different novels and diff. Genius characters

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  3. I was in London near Abbey Road studios and there was a huge lineup going all the way down the street. I thought it was for the Beatles. But no it was for the Baker street address of Sherlock Holmes

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  4. I hate to say that I am part of the problem because I adore Sherlock Holmes. But I do think Doyle is very interesting in his own right. My fave fun fact is that he ruined his friendship with Houdini bc he thought he was really magic lol. It’s very contrasting from Holmes, which I think stands to separate himself from the character as his own person.

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  5. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle still wrote Sherlock Holmes stories for another 34 years after “killing” the character. Talk about pressure.

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  6. But no one wanted to read anything he wrote. He would have went broke if he had killed Holmes for good. He was a prisoner by his financial circumstances. How can you kill off a character when that character is your paycheck?

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  7. I am sorry for what happened to him, but is this really that different than people working in boring office jobs they hated tho… a lot people in the society work in a job they hate and never had a opportunity to show their true potential and thing they really wanted to do and they are getting far less money than him. but toxicity of fandom is another matter tho

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  8. So that is the mystery of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's death…
    When a clever man turns his brain to crime, it's the worst of all – Sherlock Holmes
    I see what mr. Holmes did there…

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  9. This really puts into perspective what exactly success is, financially he did amazingly, but creatively he hit a dead end, surrounded by one story. I relate to that as a writer, for most long stories you need to push through hard bits of writers' block and just lost interest, and having it out there for others puts on a lot of expectations. Writing becomes a chore rather than a passion

    I'm so glad the closest I've gotten to this was with a fanfiction with the end just always being out of reach

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  10. I wonder if the reaction would have been different if The Last Problem was a proper novel and not just a short story out of the left field. It always felt incomplete to me, like Moriarty should have a proper introduction, that we see their intellectual fencing and end in a climactic finale.

    The story feels like an ending to a lost novel, which is really weird.

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  11. One problem I have with most people is that they selfishly consume art with little to no regard for the amount of work that it requires. Most don't seem to have any ounce of respect for the creator. They just constantly demand more.

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  12. …. I hate that people like to use the excuse “the work was personal to me” to abuse other artists writers actor, being selfish and taking what they want without caring about anything else, Some of the people were really too lacking in empathy
    (humans, the most dangerous creature for humans , Society is like poisoned candy Edible but toxic)

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  13. When i was 5 i loved to sing disney songs. People and friends cheared me, not because i was a good singer, but because they liked my enthusiasm. They always wanted "I just cant wait to be king" and even when i enjoyed it at first, it was boring to me after a time. I stopped singing at all just not to sing that one again.

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  14. L. Frank Baum was another author who wanted to escape from his most famous creation. He didn’t kill Dorothy or any of the inhabitants of Oz, but he officially cut them off from any communication with the outside world. Dorothy and her friends were still happily living in Oz, but they could no longer tell Baum the stories of their adventures, so the series was over, and Baum could write other tales.
    This didn’t work for Baum any more than it did for Doyle. An inundation of fan letters forced the reestablishment of communication between Oz and the outside world.

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