Sherlock Holmes: The Story of a Tormented Genius.

Sherlock Holmes He was not the first detective in literature, (Dupin. Edgar Allan Poe), not even the best-selling (Poirot. Agatha Christie), but he has undoubtedly gone down in history as ehe most famous fictional detective of all time.

Sherlock was hated by his own creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, for covering up the rest of his literary work that he considered of high quality, although the critics did not agree with him. Conan Doyle even tried to kill him, he did and had to resurrect him due to the revolution that his death caused among the detective's fans. Conan Doyle's own mother went to great lengths to convince her son not to murder Holmes. Even so, Sherlock Holmes was dead 10 years before its author, Conan Doyle, agreed to resurrect it.

Sherlock Holmes is born.

Sherlock Holmes was born in a magazine, The Beeton's Christmas Annual, and did so by bringing bread under his arm for Conan Doyle, who failed to earn a living as a doctor, but immediately hooked the public with his detective.

Sherlock Holmes was to be christened Sherrington Hope in a first version. From there it went to Sherrinford Holmes and finally Conan Doyle settled on Sherlock Holmes.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes they were published in the press, in The Strand Magazine, in delivery format, Precursor format of current television series.

The life of Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes never uttered the phrase Elemental, dear Watson. The phrase was an artistic license for one of his films, already in the XNUMXth century.

Holmes treated his close friend and confidant, Dr. Watson, with contempt and irony, despite his deep appreciation for him, possibly the only person for whom the detective feels anything close to affection.

Holmes was addicted to cocaine and morphine, drugs that helped him overcome his boredom. To concentrate he played the fiddle, had an Stradivarius.

Sherlock had a brother named Mycroft, smarter than him, who works for the British government and considers his brother's ductive work a hobby. Holmes is impressed by his older brother and, although he considers that he wastes his intellect in an orderly life in the service of his country, the truth is that he is self-conscious at his side.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. My job is to know what people don't know. " (The blue carbuncle)

His nemesis was Professor Moriarty, an evil-minded as brilliant as Sherlock's himself. Moriarty dies at Reichenbach Falls with Sherlock Holmes. The difference is that Moriarty I would no longer resurrect. He didn't have as many fans as the detective.

Fun facts about the great detective.

Holmes lived on the street Baker Street 221B. The street existed, but it did not reach that number. When he arrived, after the death of the detective and his creator, in 1932, a bank was installed at that address, the Abbey National Building Society, which had to hire a person to respond to the numerous letters that came to the detective.

Been represented in film and television by actors of the stature of Robert Downey Jr. and more recently, of Benedict Cumberbatch. In its most original version, Elementary, Dr Watson is a woman, Joan Watson, played by Lucy Liu.

Sherlock Holmes had a very short literary life compared to other fictional detectives: 4 novels and 56 short stories compared to 78 by Commissioner Maigret or 41 by Hercules Poirot.

Most of his adventures are narrated by Dr Watson, including the last in 1927, three years before Conan Doyle's death: The Sherlock Holmes file.

Sherlock Holmes is based on a teacher who taught Conan Doyle in college of Medicine, Joseph Bell, who impressed students in class with his deductive ability. ANDs the source of inspiration for Dr House, protagonist of the television series that bears his name.

Curiously Conan Doyle's latest work (The abyss of Maracot. 1929) it did not star in Sherlock Holmes.