A two-part drama inspired by the real-life relationship between Arthur Conan Doyle and his tutor at Edinburgh University, pioneering forensic pathologist Dr Joseph Bell, who is believed to have been a model for Sherlock Holmes.
A two-part drama inspired by the real-life relationship between Arthur Conan Doyle and his tutor at Edinburgh University, pioneering forensic pathologist Dr Joseph Bell, who is believed to have been a model for Sherlock Holmes.
When Bell and his young protege Conan Doyle are asked to diagnose what is wrong with Carlyle's wife, Bell decides that it would be inappropriate to reveal that she is ill with syphilis. This deceit angers the idealistic Conan Doyle , who decides to m…