Nevertheless, the real-life figure Sherlock Holmes is based on is still majorly ... This is despite the fact he is only a fictional creation â albeit, one with a real inspiration.

Anthony Horowitz:But a real person did provide the inspiration ... Andrew Marr:'The first great sleuth in detective fiction is Sherlock Holmes. 'That much at least is elementary.

No fictional character is so intimately associated with London. The very name of Sherlock Holmes conjures swirling fog to the imagination. How many non-existent people have their own museum ...

Arthur Conan Doyle’s first Sherlock Holmes mystery “A Study in Scarlet ... help solve the case — more than a decade before the real Scotland Yard started using them in crime detection.