Conan Doyle's Edinburgh

5: Sciennes Hill Place

Conan Doyle lived at the top flat of 3 Sciennes Hill Place from the late 1860s. Owen discusses Conan Doyle’s reduced circumstances, his illustrious relatives, involvement with a Catholic street gang and how this influenced the Baker Street Irregulars in the Sherlock Holmes stories.

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