1.0Harvard Gazettehttps://news.harvard.edu/gazetteharvardgazettehttps://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/author/harvardgazette/Not so elementary, my dear Watson — Harvard Gazetterich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="b8by5x8jGp"><a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/05/not-so-elementary-my-dear-watson/">Not so elementary, my dear Watson</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/05/not-so-elementary-my-dear-watson/embed/#?secret=b8by5x8jGp" width="600" height="338" title="“Not so elementary, my dear Watson” — Harvard Gazette" data-secret="b8by5x8jGp" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script>
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For more than a century, Sherlock Holmes, the most famous creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, has captivated mystery fans, literary scholars, and researchers of virtually every stripe. But, as dozens of Doyle scholars and Sherlockians showed during a recent three-day symposium at Harvard, the Holmes stories represent only a small part of Doyle’s contribution to literature.