If Sherlock Holmes had a flesh-and-blood secretary, does that mean he was real too? From 1843mag
It’s as if the 72-year-old Bazlinton has hoarded old love letters
With Bazlinton’s permission, I leaf through the correspondence and he rises from his armchair to join me. The postmarks are from Japan, Poland, New Zealand – everywhere but North Korea, he jokes – and during his tenure he was on the Rolodex of journalists from across the globe. Thecorrespondent was such a “nice guy” that he’d translate Russian letters for Bazlinton over drinks, cold war notwithstanding.
In addition to cases of international intrigue – “The Bermuda Triangle came up a lot” – there were missing sailboats and dogs and grandmothers. Bazlinton shows me a letter with a grainy image attached: “This is a recent murder that took place in Clarkston, Michigan…I saw two boys attack another and stab him to death. I was very nervous, but I took this picture. The police gave up on the case, but I knew I could depend on you to solve the crime.
Perhaps this isn’t surprising. A huge number of books and films these days purport to be “based on a true story”. And despite their Victorian origins, Conan Doyle’s stories are written in that vein: Watson is always taking notes on the pair’s adventures and narrates the tales as a series of reminiscences. They read like the memoir of a number two writing about his revered number one.
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