Sleuth-Hound

Från the bestselling author of The Butchering Art and The Facemaker comes the astonishing true story of Joseph Bell, the Scottish surgeon whose extraordinary talent for detection inspired Sherlock HolmesEdinburgh, 1878. A medical student squeezes into the Royal Infirmary’s packed operating theatre, eager to catch a glimpse of his celebrated professor—a man whose uncanny powers of observation blur the line between diagnosis and detective work. That man was Joseph Bell. With a flair for the thea