The enduring appeal of Sherlock Holmes
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Journalist David Grann contemplates the strange death of the world's foremost expert on Sherlock Holmes and a dozen other real-life mysteries in his new book. Grann says the appeal of Holmes is that he restores order to a bewildering universe
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David Grann: Staff writer at The New Yorker and author of "The Lost City of Z." His new book is "the Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession."
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Tim Johnson: Curator of special collections and rare books at the University of Minnesota Libraries. The library has the largest collection of Sherlock Holmes artifacts in the world.
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