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Sherlock Holmes The creator of the great fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle had trained as a Physician in Edinburgh and had worked as a General Medical Practitioner (a doctor) before he began writing the Sherlock Holmes stories. One of Doyle's tutors at Edinburgh was Dr Joseph Bell whose great powers of observation of munute details and deductions from these observations, were the basis of Holmes' similar abilities.
Dr. Joseph Bell, one of Arthur Conan Doyle's medical school professors. Bell instructed his students in the ways of observation and rational deduction, qualities that Doyle found excellent for a detective to possess.

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