Volume 46, Number 17 · November 4, 1999
The Case of Arthur Conan Doyle
By Christopher Hitchens
Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle
by Daniel Stashower
Henry Holt, 472 pp., $32.50
Holy Clues: The Gospel According to Sherlock Holmes
by Stephen Kendrick
Pantheon, 192 pp., $21.00
T.S. Eliot's most successful feline—the depraved Macavity in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats—is well known as a straight lift from Professor Moriarty, the saturnine villain in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Final Problem':
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