u/ColdProfessor

I know the character of Sherlock Holmes is partially based on Dr. Joseph Bell. But I was wondering about his physical description.

Did Doyle have anyone in mind when creating Holmes' physical characteristics?

Performing searches online just gets me results pointing back to Dr. Joseph Bell, as a source of the character's mental capabilities, or sites just repeating the physical description we get in the stories. I even found one that created an image combining different actors' faces, but obviously, these people did not yet exist when Doyle was writing.

Doyle was pretty tall, himself, so I think he might have partially based Holmes on himself, but he definitely wasn't a very lean character.

Всем Привет!

(That's as far as I can get, lol).

I'm listening to Sherlock Holmes audiobooks in the Russian language. I recognize most of them, but there is one I can't find the corresponding English version. I've noticed only Russian-language websites show up.

The story is credited to Arthur Conan Doyle, so I was assuming that he wrote it. But for the life of me, I cannot find the original English story.

I've tried searching on Google for character names that I can recognize (Lord Coxville, etc.), but absolutely nothing relevant shows up.

Some of the story titles translate straight into Russian, i.e., "The Adventure of the Gloria Scott" is given as «Глория Скотт». Others seem to use more idiomatic translations. "The Adventure of Silver Blaze" is given as «Серебряная Молния»; when I search for that story online, I get results for zippers, lol.

I'm assuming, therefore, that «Нож Танцовщицы» is also an idiomatic translation. There's no story titled "The Adventure of the Dancer's Knife."

I'm starting to think this story is not an actual Conan Doyle story.

Спасибо!

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Did Arthur Conan Doyle have anyone in mind when creating Sherlock Holmes' physical characteristics?

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Мне нужна помощь. Trying to find the English original of «Нож Танцовщицы»

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