By the time Edith Meiser was born in 1898, Sherlock Holmes had been dead for five years (seven, if considered literarily). Sir Arthur Conan Doyle killed off the world’s greatest fictional detective in “The Final Problem” (1893). Meiser resurrected him in America like no one had before.
Edith Meiser (1898-1993) was born in Detroit but received a vastly different education than most Americans. She began her schooling at Detroit’s prestigious Liggett School (now University Liggett School), before moving overseas with her family and attending Kox Schule in Dresden, Germany. She then attended Ecole de la Cour de St. Pierre in Geneva. An education in Europe at the time came with the obvious perils due to World War I, but it appears she and her family were unscathed. She finished her schooling stateside at the all-women’s Vassar College, attending from 1917 to 1921.
