In 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes because Dr Josepbell, one of his professors inspired the creation of Sherlock Holmes.
Sherlock Holmes appears in 60 stories, published between 1887 and 1927.
Conan Doyle had learned french so that he could read Jules Verne in the original. Conan Doyle studied medicine at Edinburgh University.
With Dracula, Holmes is the literary character who is in most films. It sold very many books of Sherlock Holmes, 7 million hardbooks and 100 million paperbooks.
The famous quote "Elementary, my dear Watson" never appeared in the books.
Sherlock Holmes returns in a new film with Robert Downey and Jude Law. There are rumours that Brad Pitt will be Moriarty in the next Sherlock Holmes film.
In the books, 221b Baker street, is the London address of Holmes and Watson. In the real world it was a bank. Today, 221b is the number of the Sherlock Holmes Museum. The museum is actually between 237 and 241 Baker street. There is also a pub in London called The Sherlock Holmes!
