Laffitte wanted a French rival to Sherlock Holmes – both in character and in the ability to attract a mass readership.Īt this point, the Holmes tales had become renowned across the world, and the great detective, killed off by his creator in 1893, had returned from the dead just two years previously, in 1903. His new journal Je Sais Tout (I Know Everything) had just launched and he was looking for an author who could do for his magazine, what Arthur Conan Doyle’s phenomenally popular Sherlock Holmes had done for The Strand magazine, in London. In 1905 in Paris, the publisher Pierre Laffite had an idea. I’m Conor Reid, with Words To That Effect So, now, or after you’ve listened, if you go to /survey you can answer a few questions about the show and help me get to episode 100. I really want to make another 50 episodes of Words To That Effect, but I’d like to make a few changes and shake things up a bit, and I’d love to hear what you have to say. It’s episode 50 – hurray! – and I’m doing a short survey to find out a little bit more about you, and what you like about the show. Check out a whole host of great Irish podcasts hereīefore I begin this episode, I just wanted to ask you a favour. Words To That Effect is a member of the Headstuff Podcast Network.
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