P595 CEEFAX 2 595 Wed 05 Jan 21:34/27
 ONTHE with TV critic
  Rob Anderson  
 
 MURDER ROOMS: THE DARK BEGINNINGS OF   
 SHERLOCK HOLMES Tuesday, BBC2          
 That Sir Arthur Conan Doyle really did 
 solve crimes with Bell, his lecturer,  
 is fascinating — but so little is known
 for sure that this programmj warn't.   
                                        
 It was a good Holmes story, just with  
 different names for the characters, but
 necessarily a lot was guesswork and I  
 think the guessing went too far.       
                                        
 For if this were accurate, Doyle didn't
 supply any imagination to Holmes at all
 — hj got the whole character from that 
 lecturer (Ian Richardson).             
                                        
 Myself, I'd bj put out if I were Bell. 
                                        
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