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Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th century, created by British author and physician Arthur Conan Doyle. He is famous for his prowess at using logic and careful observation to solve cases.
Holmes was said to have lived at 221B Baker Street (an upper-storey flat at 221 Baker Street; in early notes it was described as Upper Baker Street), where he spent many of his professional years with his friend and colleague Dr. Watson while the residence was maintained by Mrs. Hudson.
Sherlock Holmes describes himself as a "consulting detective", which means that he
is brought into cases that have proven too difficult for other investigators;
we are told that he is often able to solve a problem without leaving home (although this aspect is somewhat lost in the stories themselves, which focus on the more interesting cases which often do require him to do actual legwork). He specializes in solving unusual cases using his extraordinary powers of observation and "deduction" (see below).
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle credits the inception of Holmes on his teacher at the medical school of Edinburgh University, the gifted surgeon and forensic detective Joseph Bell, forensic science being a new type of science at the time. However, some years later Bell wrote to Conan Doyle: "you are yourself Sherlock Holmes and well you know it" (Baring-Gould, p. 8). The 'Sherlock Holmes' name was derived from a pair of cricketcricket match in progress. The beige strip is the cricket pitch. The people wearing black trousers on the far right are the umpires. Cricket is a team game played between two teams of eleven players each. It originated in its modern form in England, and iers – however some early notes give his name as Sherrinford Holmes.
It is a popular myth that Sherlock Holmes gave rise to the entire genre of murder mystery fiction; in reality, the detective genre was alive before Holmes, if not one which followed a logical progression to the solution. Many fictional detectives have imitated Holmes' logical methods and followed in his footsteps, in many different ways. Some of the more popular fictional detectives to continue Holmes' legacy include Agatha ChristieDame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie DBE ( September 15, 1890 January 12, 1976), was a British crime fiction writer. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott . Agatha Christie is the world's best-known mystery writer and all-time best selling's Hercule PoirotHercule Poirot (pronounced Air-kyool Pwa-roe is a fictional character, the primary detective of Agatha Christie's novels who appears in over 30 books. The character was born in Belgium, and has worked as a Belgian police officer, but moved to England afte, Ellery QueenEllery Queen was a pseudonym used by two cousins, Frederick Dannay (1905-1972) and Manfred B. Lee (1905-1982), both of them American, to write detective fiction. Movies, radio shows, and television shows were also based on their works. In a successful ser, Perry MasonPerry Mason is a fictional defense attorney who originally appeared in novels by Erle Stanley Gardner and who was portrayed by Raymond Burr in a television series which ran on CBS from 1957 to 1966. The general plot involves Perry Mason unmasking the actu, ColumboNote: This article is on the television program "Columbo. You may also be looking for the city of Colombo. Columbo was an American crime fiction TV series created by Richard Levinson and William Link. It aired regularly from 1971 to 1978, and sporadically, Dick TracyDick Tracy is a newspaper comic strip created in 1931 by Chester Gould and distributed by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate. Dick Tracy is a hard hitting, fast shooting, and supremely intelligent police detective who matched wits with a variety of colorful vi, and even the comic bookA comic book (sometimes called funnies or funny paper is a book or magazine and more recently a graphic novel in the artistic medium known as comics. American comic books have become closely associated with the superhero genre, but the subject matter of c superhero Batman. A modern variant might be the NBC series TV show . (See also Detective fiction)
