Dr Joseph Bell Dr Joseph Bell

'easy to read - crammed with facts and anecdotes' (Writers' Advice Centre for Children's Books)

The first of a new series of children's books aimed at the 9 upwards age range.

This is the story of an extraordinary man - a surgeon, a doctor and a teacher - whose amazing powers of observation and deduction gave one of his pupils, Arthur Conan Doyle, the idea of creating the character of Sherlock Holmes - perhaps the most famous detective of all time.

"Dr Robert Hume has drawn on the most authoritative sources... and distilled the essentials of Joe Bell's life and career into eighty engrossing pages... an excellent introduction to Dr Bell for younger readers.'

The District Messenger, The Newsletter of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London 26 June 2005

"From the first page, you are thrown into the story and after that you are compelled to keep reading.'
Lucy Harris, 12 years old, in Isle magazine Winter/Spring 2006

Dr Robert Hume lives in Broadstairs, Kent, and teaches at Clarendon House Grammar School in Ramsgate where he also manages the football teams and runs the Scrabble Club. He has written several non-fiction books and a historical novel, and has had articles published in BBC History Magazine and History Today. His books for children include The Boy who would be King: Perkin Warbeck published by Short Books.

Dr Joseph Bell: the Original Sherlock Holmes by Robert Hume.  Illustrated by Cheryl Ives. Stone Publishing House.  Publication date: July 2005.  Price £4.99. ISBN 0-9549909-0-0

Please send your order with £5.98 (£4.99 plus 99p to cover p&p).

Orders to:  Stone Publishing House
                 17, Stone House
Northforeland Road
Broadstairs
Kent
CT10 3NT

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By the same author:

Early Child Immigrants to Virginia, 1618-1642

Education Since 1700

Christopher Columbus and the European Discovery of America

Religion and Society in Kent, 1660-1914

Ruling Ambition: The Story of Perkin Warbeck

Death by Chance: The Abergele Train Disaster, 1868

The Boy who would be King: Perkin Warbeck

Click here for information on the BBC2 programme of 27 July 2005, part of which dealt with Joseph Bell

Now available:

Equiano: the slave with the loud voice

'A balanced account of the strange mixture of cruelty and kindness he met in England.' (Times Educational Supplement)

'Fascinating and horrendous, this is a true story my classes are never likely to forget. The illustrations in the book are excellent.' (Hilary Hewitt, St Anthony’s School, Margate, Kent)

Click here for more details on BBC Kent website