Sherlock Holmes

myth:sherlock_holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle made the detective immortal: Sherlock Holmes, the consulting detective of Baker Street, reading a man's whole life from his cuffs and his boots, his feats set down by the faithful Dr. Watson. Built openly on Poe's Dupin and Gaboriau's Lecoq, Holmes outgrew them both to become the very image of the detective. — genre history