The iconic detective Sherlock Holmes was created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. First appearing in print in the 1887 story A Study in Scarlet, Holmes has since been reimagined, recreated, and reinvented ...

But while these others come from text with rich, iconic supporting characters, Sherlock is the only one who feels incomplete ...

3. Sherlock Holmes’s influence was vast among elite writers. T.S. Eliot said, “Every writer owes something to Holmes.” John Le Carre described the short stories as “a kind of narrative ...

Listen to Sherlock Holmes Short Stories, narrated by Hugh Bonneville. A woman struck dead after hearing a haunting whistle. A series of child-like drawings scrawled throughout a country estate.

Without Sherlock Holmes, can Arthur Conan Doyle become the hero of his own story? Arthur Conan Doyle killed off his most famous creation, consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, after just six years.

Adaptations of Holmes stories are exploding now that the detective is in the public domain. Critics believe it should have ...

“It is not of the first flight,” he wrote, “and Sherlock, like his author, grows a little stiff in the joints, but it is the best I can do.” Personally, I find Holmes’s concluding ...