Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character created by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. He is an English consulting detective living in London at 221b Baker Street.

At first Arthur Conan Doyle named the detective as Sherrinford Holmes (not Sherringford as he wrongly mentioned in his auto-biography Memories and Adventures 40 years later) and the biographer Ormond Sacker (see manuscript in A Study in Scarlet). But he changed his mind and renamed them as Sherlock Holmes and John H. Watson.

"Scandal in Bohemia," the first story from the series "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" was published in the magazine Strand of 1891. The protagonist of the protagonist, who soon became a legendary detective adviser, was Joseph Bell, a professor at the University of Edinburgh, who was famous for the ability to guess the character and past of man in the smallest details. For two years, Doyle created a narrative based on the narrative, and eventually began to worry about his own character. His attempt to "finish" with Holmes in a battle with Professor Moriarty ("The Last Case of Holmes, 1893) was unsuccessful: he loved the readers and the hero had to" resurrect. " Holmes' epic crowned with the novel "The Baskervillian Dog" (1900), which refers to the classics of the detective genre.

Sherlock Holmes's adventures are devoted to four novels: The Study of Scarlet Tones (1887), The Badge of the Four (1890), Baskervilles Dog, The Valley of Horror - and five collections of stories, the most famous of which are The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes "(1892)," Notes on Sherlock Holmes "(1894) and" The Return of Sherlock Holmes "(1905). Writer's contemporaries were inclined to diminish the greatness of Holmes, seeing it as a kind of hybrid of Dyupin (Edgar Allan Poe), Lecok (Emile Gaborio) and Kaffa (Wilky Collins). In retrospect, it became clear how much Holmes is different from its predecessors: the combination of unusual qualities raised it over time, made relevant at all times. The extraordinary popularity of Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion and biographer, Dr. Watson (Watson), has gradually evolved into a new mythology, the center of which is still the flat in London at Baker Street, 221B.