{"product_id":"sleuth-hound-by-lindsey-fitzharris-9780241632611","title":"Sleuth-Hound","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Butchering Art\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Facemaker\u003c\/em\u003e comes the astonishing true story of Joseph Bell, the Scottish surgeon whose extraordinary talent for detection inspired Sherlock Holmes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEdinburgh, 1878. A medical student named Arthur Conan Doyle squeezes into the Royal Infirmary's packed operating theatre, hoping to catch a glimpse of the celebrated professor whose uncanny powers of observation blur the line between diagnosis and detective work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat professor was Joseph Bell, who became one of the most celebrated surgeons and medical reformers of his age. With a flair for the theatrical and an eye for clues hidden in the tiniest details, he astonished his students with lightning-fast deductions about his patients' backgrounds and ailments. Together with Edinburgh's chief police surgeon, Henry Duncan Littlejohn, Bell also investigated some of the highest-profile murders of the century, including those of Jack the Ripper, and collaborated with forensic specialists such as a ballistics expert named Dr. Watson. As Conan Doyle's mentor, Bell inspired the creation of literature's most iconic sleuth: Sherlock Holmes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInternational bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris guides us through the smog-choked alleys and crowded slums of Victorian Edinburgh to tell the compelling, untold story of the birth of modern forensic science through the life of its most charismatic figure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47976738881772,"sku":"9780241632611","price":65.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780241632611-sleuth-hound.jpg?v=1784698418","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/sleuth-hound-by-lindsey-fitzharris-9780241632611","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}