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Janice Allan

Season 1 Episode 3 | 3m 35s

There's a lot of weirdness in the later Sherlock Holmes stories – the Casebook of Sherlock Holmes. There are vampires, even a bit of science fiction. To Sherlock Holmes fans who liked Holmes’s rationality, this must have seemed like a really strange new departure? Lucy explores the story ‘The Creeping Man’ with Professor Janice Allan.

Extras
Lucy Worsley and Professor Sue Black discuss how some aspects of Sherlock's tactics get used today.
Arthur applies to fight in the Boer War, hoping to finally become the hero of his own story.
Arthur turns his attention to devising a new Holmes story set just before the war: "His Last Bow."
Could Arthur turn detective himself and solve a real life miscarriage of justice?
Sherlock Holmes is back from the dead! How did the fictional sleuth survive the Reichenbach Fall?
Does Arthur’s science stand up to scrutiny when trialed and tested?
A phantom hound, the spooky setting of Dartmoor – it is of course Hound of the Baskervilles!
Arthur became the judge of Britain’s very first body building competition at the Albert Hall.
Lucy talks with Arthur's step great-grandson about the author's love-hate relationship with Holmes.
Lucy Worsley visits the Reichenbach Falls, the site of fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes' death.