Fascinating A stimulating contribution to our never-ending fascination with Holmes himself, and, even more perhaps, his genial creator Sunday Times. A medical student at the University of Edinburgh, Arthur Conan Doyle studied under the vigilant eye of Dr Joseph Bell. He observed as Dr Bell identified a patients occupation, hometown and ailments from the smallest details of dress, gait and speech. Although Doyle was training to be a surgeon, he was cultivating essential knowledge that would help him to de