Arthur Conan Doyle Hated Sherlock Holmes. Benedict Cumberbatch Playing Him Would Have Made Things Worse.
2026/06/20
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Arthur Conan Doyle Hated Sherlock Holmes. Benedict Cumberbatch Playing Him Would Have Made Things Worse.
Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes in 1887 and spent the next four decades trying to escape him.
The feeling, documented extensively in Doyle's letters and autobiography, was not mild frustration.
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