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Stephen Fry: ‘Sherlock Holmes altered the course of my whole life’

Nearly a hundred years after Arthur Conan Doyle’s last Sherlock Holmes story, the writer and broadcaster unravels the mystery of the detective’s enduring appeal It has become quite the fashion for contemporary writers to have a go at reinventing past classics.

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