Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is the most famous detective in the world. Sherlock Holmes was created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. Sherlock Holmes apperars in 60 stories, plubished between 1887 and 1997. Seven million hardbacks and a 100 million paper books have been sold.

With Dracula, Sherlock Holmes is the literary character who is the most films. More than 70 actors have played him in more than 200 films. Sherlock Holmes has been adapted for theatre, TV, cartoons and radio.

Sherlock Holmes returned in 2010 with Robert Downey as Holmes and Jude Law as his friend, Dr Watson. Brad Pitt will be Moriarty in the next Sherlock Holmes film. The famous quote Elementary, my dear Watson never appeared in the books only one once in a film of the Sherlock Holmes.

About baker street in the books, this is the London addres of Holmes and Watson. In the real world, until 2002, was a bank.