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First Writer To Kill Off Sherlock Holmes?

  • 17-08-2016 9:35pm
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    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,994 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    There's a quiz on the Irish Times website with 22 very difficult literary questions. One I am stumped on is...
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was not the first writer to kill off Sherlock Holmes. Who was?

    I've googled every possible combination of those words and to no avail. The only thing that keeps coming up is the story where Doyle killed Holmes off but then bowed to public pressure and brought him back in another book.

    Any ideas?


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5 MasqueOfTheRed


    William Gillette maybe?


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,994 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    William Gillette maybe?

    I looked but I can't find anything about Holmes dying in the plays.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 ScottScott


    I think should be James Barrie in The Adventure of the Two Collaborators (1893)


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,994 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    ScottScott wrote: »
    I think should be James Barrie in The Adventure of the Two Collaborators (1893)

    I looked this up and it seems the most likely answer.

    Thanks so much.


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