‘Boxing is in the blood’: Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle and the prize ring
The author of a new novel about the famed detective explores a little-known facet of Holmes’s creatorWhat do Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle have to do with boxing? Doyle, who created Holmes, was a boxing enthusiast who boxed a bit and wrote extensively about the sport.Doyle stood 6ft tall and weighed in the neighborhood of 200lb.
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The author of a new novel about the famed detective explores a little-known facet of Holmes’s creatorWhat do Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle have to do with boxing? Doyle, who created Holmes, was a boxing enthusiast who boxed a bit and wrote extensively about the sport.Doyle stood 6ft tall and weighed in the neighborhood of 200lb. He began sparring while a medical student at the University of Edinburgh and described himself as “a fair average amateur”.“McMurdo,” cried Sherlock Holmes genially. “I don’t think you can have forgotten me.
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- The author of a new novel about the famed detective explores a little-known facet of Holmes’s creatorWhat do Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle have to do with boxing? Doyle, who created Holmes, was a boxing enthusiast who boxed a bit and wrote extensively about the sport.Doyle stood 6ft tall and weighed in the neighborhood of 200lb.
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‘Boxing is in the blood’: Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle and the prize ring
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