Sherlock Holmes

 Sherlock Holmes is the world's most famous detective. His adventures, written over a hundred years ago, are still widely read today and have been translated into many languages.
About Sherlock Holmes

 Sherlock Holmes was created by the British author and former doctor, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), who once explained that the character was based on real doctors he had known when he was a medical student in Edinburgh in the late 1870s.

Holmes lives in a flat in Baker Street, London, which he shares with his friend, Dr Watson. He works because he enjoys solving mysteries rather than for money and only investigates cases that he thinks are interesting.


Holmes is known for his powers of logical reasoning, his ability to use disguises and his forensic skills. But he is a personality with many contradictions. When he is working on a case, he has great energy and is extremely methodical. However, in his private life he is untidy and gets bored easily.
tobacco, which he keeps in the end of an old slipper, occasionally uses drugs and rarely answers his letters.

Holmes is an expert in certain fields related to his detective work but completely ignorant about many other things. He once claimed that he didn’t know the earth moved around the sun because it wasn’t relevant to his work. He also plays the violin and is an expert at boxing and sword fighting.

As a person, Holmes often seems to lack feelings, ‘a thinking machine’, but he likes to show off his skills and is happy when he can solve a case that has defeated everybody else. He is a loner and has no social life or any interest in women. The only woman he admires is Irene Adler, because she shows herself to be cleverer than him. (See A Scandal in Bohemia.) However, there is no evidence that he is gay.

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Sherlock Holmes: Short Stories  From the Reminiscences of Dr. John Watson
As Recorded by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle   Read by John Telfer
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The web portal about the Great Detective 

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This site is devoted to the life and work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  Here you'll find information about Sherlock Holmes, The Lost World and Conan Doyle's other writing.  You'll also learn about his time as a ship's surgeon,  his tangled love life, his troubled father and other aspects of his interesting life.  This site is also home to the largest collection of Conan Doyle quotations anywhere.






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