Does Sherlock Holmes exist ?

Question

I checked on the internet/map/history records so many places that described in the Sir Arthur's books, do exist.

So Sherlock Holmes exist.

I am not asking wrong question in wrong place.

Thank and God Bless You

Answer 1

Um. Ok you are posting in religion so you intend to make a point. You are right. the fact that Arthur Conan Doyle mentioned real places does not make Sherlock any more real than Mr. H. Potter Esq. or Jesus the God junior.

Answer 2

Sherlock Holmes is fictional but Arthur Conan Doyle based him on a real character. Many of the places described in the books do exist. If you want to go into this in great detail, borrow "The Annotated Sherlock Holmes."

Answer 3

Sherlock Holmes exists in the heart of every mystery buff in the world. Sherlock is the quintessence of the Private detective. There is even a Sherlock Holmes Pub at Fort Davis Texas in the heart of the Big Bend country. A Calabash pipe sits in a place of honor in the cabinet of pieces we have collected around the world. Thank the Gods that Doctor Watson was around to record his cases.

If enough people truly believe in anything, it truly exists. When belief wanes the existence falls into mythology. To be forgotten by all is the only non-existence.

Answer 4

No the fictional character Sherlock Holmes does not exist.

However, the author Sir Conan Doyle, did use real places in his books.

Oh, I get your point, now.. LOL

Answer 5

No. He was a completely ficticious character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

From Wikipedia:

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of deductive reasoning and astute observation to solve difficult cases. He is arguably the most famous fictional detective ever created, and is one of the best known and most universally recognisable literary characters in any genre.

Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories that featured Holmes. All but four stories were narrated by Holmes' friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson, two having been narrated by Holmes himself, and two others written in the third person. The first two stories, short novels, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887 and Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the beginning of the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine in 1891; further series of short stories and two serialized novels appeared almost right up to Conan Doyle's death in 1930. The stories cover a period from around 1878 up to 1903, with a final case in 1914. They are often read as much for their stylised characterisation of the late-Victorian world in which the stories take place as for the mysteries themselves.[

Answer 6

A) Your logic is specious and seriously flawed.

B) That being said, the model from whom Arthur Conan Doyle took the character Sherlock Holmes was very definitely a real live person. I know because he was my maternal great, great grandfather.

Answer 7

Are you implying that Christ doesn't exist or for that matter God?

Pretty thin argument considering that the Bible does not meet the literary requirements to be considered a book of fiction, where as the Sherlock Holmes was specifically fiction.

Answer 8

Only in the mind of the fiction writer.

Answer 9

he used to

Answer 10

I think he did but not in Religion & Spirituality