Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character created by British author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes was based on a real man, Dr Joseph Bell, a renown scientist at Edinburgh University. Conan-Doyle wrote 56 self contained short stories & 4 novels (60 adventures in total).









The first Sherkock Holmes story "A Study In Scarlet" was published in 1886. Holmes works as a detective for 23 years, with physician John Watson assisting him for 17. Most of the stories are frame narratives, written from Watson's point of view as summaries of the detective's most interesting cases. Holmes's primary intellectual detection method is deductive reasoning. It allows Holmes to learn a stranger's occupation, such as the retired Marine sergeant in A Study in Scarlet. However, Conan Doyle does not paint Holmes as infallible.

The first Holmes sound film was 1929's sound-on-disc The Return of Sherlock Holmes, with Clive Brook as Holmes.

Christopher Lee starred as Holmes in three screen adaptations: Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962), Incident at Victoria Falls (1991) and Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1992)

The only actors to play Holmes and Watson in adaptations of every Doyle story are Clive Merrison and Michael Williams; they played Holmes and Watson, respectively, from 1989 to 1998.

The 2009 Sherlock Holmes, which earned Robert Downey Jr. a Golden Globe Award for his portrayal of Holmes and which co-starred Jude Law as Watson, focuses on Holmes's antisocial personality. Downey and Law returned for a 2011 sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.

Benedict Cumberbatch plays a modern version of the detective with Martin Freeman as Watson in the TV series Sherlock, which premiered in 2010. In the series, created by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat, the stories' original Victorian setting is now present-day London. Cumberbatch's Holmes uses modern technology (including texting and blogging) to help solve crimes

Elementary premiered in 2012. Set in New York, the series features Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes and Lucy Liu as Dr. Joan Watson.

The 2015 film Mr. Holmes, starred Ian McKellen as a retired Sherlock Holmes living in Sussex, in 1947, who deals with an unsolved case involving a beautiful woman. The film is based on Mitch Cullin's 2005 novel A Slight Trick of the Mind.