Ignatius Pollaky, a Sherlock Holmes in 1874?
Ignatius Pollaky is without question the most mysterious of great detectives. In researching Brilliant Deduction, I pieced together enough to get a sense of the man and his career, but much remains and probably will remain unknown. I don’t know what day he was born, and the only image of the man is a caricature from Figaro’s London Sketch Book of Celebrities; it looks as though it may have been drawn from a portrait, but who can say.
There’s something else possibly even more mysterious about that particular drawing, however. Care to guess?
Image from The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Collection.
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