PositiveThe Wall Street JournalFans of Sherlock Holmes who want to know about the equally remarkable man who created him can learn a good deal from Arthur and Sherlock ... There are some additional stories I wish Mr. Sims had told, for example of two distinguished men—Lawson Tait, one of the era’s leading physicians, and Lord Coleridge, the poet’s grandnephew and Lord Chief Justice of England—writing to the obscure author jointly in late 1890, after The Sign of Four had appeared to say how much they enjoyed it and hoped to read more about the remarkable Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle was struck by their letter, and six months later did give his unsuccessful character Sherlock Holmes one more chance.
