Lillian De La Torre

 Lillian De La Torre's short stories chronicle the fictional mysteries solved by Dr. Samuel Johnson related in the language and style of his real life biographer, James Boswell, in Dr. Sam: Johnson, Detector and The Detections of Dr. Sam: Johnson.  Although the stories are fiction, they are drawn from people and events in Johnson's life.  For example, Samuel Johnson never found Prince Charlie's Ruby, but he did meet Flora MacDonald on his trip to the Isle of Skye and did sleep in Prince Charlie's room.  

My favorite story was The Monboddo Ape Boy, a fictional story involving a real Scottish judge and linguistic scientist, James Burnett, known as Lord Monboddo, who was renowned for his scholarship and his eccentricity.     

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