Conan Doyle takes a turn as Sherlock Holmes in this historical curiosity by a NY Times obit writer. In late-Victorian Scotland, the mystery writer flexed his own detective muscles by investigating a real-life murder & helping free a wrongfully convicted man. It’s duller than it sounds. Conan Doyle bios (like Michael Sims’ Arthur and Sherlock) have already told the backstory. The mundane murder ain’t the Dreyfus Affair. And the author’s awe for Conan Doyle’s deductive powers feels like a stretch. (He never even leaves his living room.) Too elementary, Watson.