![]() However Jean Leckie (later to be ACD's second wife) is still presented as the woman who saved ACD from his personal hell and gave him the happiness that he so craved. Louise Conan Doyle is given sympathetic treatment which is good as she is too often portrayed as the sick wife who is the obstacle to her husband's happiness. All this happened four years after Holmes vanished at Reichenbach. However Cleeve here is too old and ACD did not hire him until 1897 when he moved into Undershaw in Surrey. Conan Doyle's son is depicted as a baby (which he would have been in 1893) but at the party in question he would have been five years old.Ĭonan Doyle has a butler called Cleeve from the opening scene. The story opens in 1893 just before Holmes' "death" yet the party depicted in the opening scenes took place in 1897. Mainly the issues are those of chronology. ![]() However we then have to launch into the negatives. It is also a hugely enjoyable piece that is, I think, well shot and acted. ![]() My wife, who likes the stories but is not a Sherlockian, got a good grasp of Conan Doyle the man courtesy of this drama. It remains, in my opinion, the best way to show a non-Sherlock Holmes / Arthur Conan Doyle fan the lead-up to Holmes' "death" (and the reasons for it) along with Conan Doyle's personal struggles. ![]() My principal issue is that I love it even though it is littered with errors. I know this was broadcast some years ago but I feel that it is time to review it because for me it causes real issues. ![]()
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