To wize woman you just answered my question johntex on sherlock holmes you are wrong wrong wrong?

Question

three musketeers are fictional , sherlock holmes is a 100% real character who was written about by sir arthur conan doyle
but thank you, read the seven % solution, holmes was addicted to cocaine and was lured to austria under false pretenses by watson to see sigmund freud who had already beaten his addiction to cocaine

Answer 1

Yes, Sherlock Holmes was entirely the product of Conan Doyle's creativity, BUT--he was BASED on Dr. Joseph Bell, who was one of Doyle's teachers at the medical school at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Dr. Bell had made a lifelong habit of observing people closely, taking in the most minute details, from which he could deduce a great deal more about them than they realized they were giving away.

By the way, the movie based on The Seven Per Cent Solution, will always stand out in my mind--my younger brother and I walked a couple of blocks to the theater at Fort Richardson, Alaska, to see it. The reason it sticks out in my mind is that we did this in the midst of an Alaskan snowstorm and he later wrote a story about it for his English class, calling it "The Seven Per Cent Solution: The Night I Fought Nature."

This was in the 1970's.

Answer 2

sorry Sherlock Holmesis a fictional character i pasted this for you to read.


Sherlock Holmes is the fictional creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who wrote about the detective in a series of 60 stories published between 1887 and 1927. Holmes was famous for his extra-keen powers of observation and deduction, which he used to solve perplexing crimes and mysteries. He operated from his flat at 221b Baker Street in London, assisted by his friend Dr. Watson. The nefarious criminal Professor Moriarty appears as Holmes's antagonist in some of the tales. Sherlock Holmes was an immediate hit in Doyle's day and remains so popular that he is sometimes mistaken for a real historical figure. Among the most famous Holmes stories are A Study in Scarlet (the first Sherlock Holmes story, 1887) and The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902).

Answer 3

Sherlock Holmes is fictional, although he was based on a real person. "The Seven Percent Solution" is an awesome book. There was a movie based on it, back in the 1970's/1980's.

Answer 4

Sorry, Sherlock Holmes is entirely fictional. Conan doyle started writing the Sherlock Holmes series as a magazine item. It was like a serial novel.
It was good writing and I enjoyed reading Holmes.

Here is a wikipedia article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes

Answer 5

Sorry, but Wize Woman was right! Sherlock Holmes was a Character (fictional) created by Conan-Doyle based on his own experiences when he was trained in forensics by a noted leader in the field. There's a great BBC (I think) series all about it. Please don't tell people they are wrong unless they are.