SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE WORLD'S LARGEST FICTIONED DETECTIVE KNOWN AND LOVED?

SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE WORLD'S LARGEST FICTIONED DETECTIVE KNOWN AND LOVED?

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional crime novel character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930). The characters in his novels are: Sherlock Holmes of course, John H. Watson his best friend, Mycroft Holmes his brother, Mrs Hudson his landlady, Professor Moriarty his nemesis, Inspector Lestrade, among others because there are several and Irene Adler, the only woman he considers his equal and worthy of interest.

His first adventure is "A study in red". It appears in 1887 in the Beeton's Christmas Annual and goes completely unnoticed. His second, The Sign of the Four, was published in 1890. In January 1891, his author, discovering the first issue of Strand Magazine, decided to write and offer him new adventures of the detective, including, A Scandal in Bohemia and The League of The first news appears in the July issue. He provides five more news and then renews his contract for six additional investigations at a rate of one per month. Success is devastating. In November 1891, he wrote to his mother, "I plan to kill Holmes in the sixth adventure. It prevents me from thinking of better things. Thanks to the author's mother who finds new intrigues and thanks to his supplications, Sherlock Holmes gets a reprieve.

Doyle settled in December 1892 in Davos Platz, Switzerland. Not far from here, lie the Reichenbach Falls, a magnificent setting, grandiose and terrifying, conducive to a fine dramatic. At the end of a new series of twelve adventures, Holmes dies there, dragged into a downfall by Prof. Moriarty (The Last Problem). In spite of the virulent protests from the public and his mother, Doyle refuses to resurrect his detective.

The first part of the Dog of the Baskerville appears in August 1901 in Strand Magazine. Sherlock Holmes makes a first comeback. It's an adventure that takes place before the detective's death in Reichenbach. It was not until 1903 that an American publisher convinced Doyle, by offering him a large sum of money, to resuscitate the detective. Thirty-three short stories will be published between September 1903 (The Empty House) and March 1927 (The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place).

Sherlock Holmes is an attractive person, by his intelligence, his memory, his observation and his deduction. He has become one of the most brilliant characters to ever know how to create. Born of Doyle's imagination, it is inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, a professor of surgery whose astonishing deductions about his patients and their illnesses made the idea of a detective using the same methods come to life.

That's what we know about Sherlock Holmes' life. On his childhood and adolescence, we do not know much. It is during the two years he spent in college (we do not know which) that Sherlock Holmes realizes that he can make a living with what is for him a hobby: observation and deduction. The father of his only friend of the moment opened his eyes and said, "I do not know how you are doing, Mr. Holmes, but I have the impression that all official and unofficial detectives are beside you children. . This is your career, sir! Then, during his last years at the University (we do not know which one), we start talking about him and his methods. His career begins as well.

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