"Death Rooms: The Dark Origins of Sherlock Holmes" is a biographical detective series based on the stories of David Peary, as well as on the texts of Conan Doyle himself. The basis is the biography of the writer, the history and reasons for creating the image of the legendary detective. Its prototype is Dr. Joseph Bell, a police consultant and lecturer at the Medical University whose pupil is Arthur Conan Doyle. The future writer gets acquainted in detail with the unusual methods of his teacher and begins to help him in the investigation of crimes. Moreover, he himself is the prototype of the image of Dr. Watson, the partner and assistant of the great thinker, the discoverer of the deductive method, so admired by everyone.
The appearance of the actual stories about the “immortal hero” is a kind of sublimation, when the hero loses a loved one, a girl who fell victim to a murderer. Then a great detective appears on the pages, refuting the words of his creator about his mortality.
In addition to the fact that real facts from the biography of Conan Doyle are taken, the plot includes fragments of stories about Sherlock Holmes himself, and there is also a clear reference to important public events taking place at that time in England.
The original feature is a light English humor that harmoniously fits into the detective story.
This is a quality and fascinating work, with its own special color and tone of narration, which I would like to draw attention to.