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Sherlock Holmes quizzes by Tim

Sherlock Holmes quizzes by Tim

If you’ve read a good number of the original ‘canon’ – the 56 short stories and four novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who created Holmes and Watson – try your hand at these quizzes I compiled for Country Life and Education quizzes...

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What of Watson?

Readers of any of my five novels or the short stories will realise I’ve very considerable admiration for Dr. John H. Watson. I’m not the first to deplore the traditional Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce Hollywood portrayal of the former Army surgeon...

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About Tim Symonds

About Tim Symonds

Tim Symonds was born in London, England, and grew up in Somerset, Dorset and the Channel Island of Guernsey, off the coast of Normandy. After spending his late teens farming in the Kenya Highlands and driving bulldozers along the Zambezi River...

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About the Author

About the Author

Tim Symonds lives in the Sussex Weald – a series of wooded hills and valleys near the ancient Ashdown Forest, a region thoroughly familiar to Arthur Conan Doyle. He writes in a converted oast-house looking out at a bunch of rowdy jackdaws...

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