Sherlock holmes

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is the worlds most famous and recognized fictional detective
"Like the air we breathe, Sherlock Holmes is everywhere. His pipe-smoking, stalker image peers at us from ads in Yellow Pages, to signs for neighborhood crime-watch; from billboards to the classroom; from film and television to the public library, and now over the Internet. He long ago transcended the boundaries of 19th Century London to become an international best-seller and has been accepted as part of British folklore. Holmes is alive to millions of people all over the world."
To many, Holmes remains the standard for the modern day detective story.
A brilliant London-based "consulting detective", Sherlock Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and is renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning and inference to solve difficult cases.

(Sir) Arthur Conan-Doyle wrote his first Holmes story,
A Study In Scarlet, in 1886.
Sherlock Holmes, a fictitious character was based on a real man,
Dr. Joseph Bell, a renown forensic scientist at Edinburgh University whom
Conan-Doyle studied under.
Conan-Doyle wrote 56 self contained short stories & 4 novels
wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories
that feature Holmes. The first two stories, short novels,
appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887 and
Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890, respectively.