The Men Who Were Sherlock Holmes: A True-life Victorian Murder Mystery

The sensational story of the real-life origins of the fictional Sherlock Holmes - and how crime fiction and crime fact collided in a case that gripped Victorian Britain

In 1893, young army officer Cecil Hambrough was murdered at the sprawling Ardlamont estate in Scotland, unleashing one of the most gripping court cases Victorian Britain had ever known. Even more remarkably, the case brought together two pioneering forensic experts - Joseph Bell and Henry Littlejohn - two men upon whom Arthu...