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Baker Street

London Crime

The London Bank Job Inspired by Sherlock Holmes

Eric Patcham /

One of the strangest Sherlock Holmes stories ever attached to Baker Street did not come from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s pen. It came from a gang of real criminals, a closed leather goods shop, a basement, a tunnel, a 100-ton jack, gelignite, and a Lloyds Bank vault full of safety deposit boxes.