All about Sherlock Holmes "The Greatest British Detective Character"

"My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know."

• Who Does not Know Sherlock Holmes?

Who does not know Sherlock Holmes, the most famous fictional character from the realm of English literature? He is the most famous consulting detective in the world, which was successfully listed in the Guinness World of Records as "the most widely played the character in the movie," with a total of 75 actors who ever act it!

• History Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is the work of the Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who created the profession of the world's first consulting detective. This detective is known as genius, logical, disguised champion, a great observer, and deductive inference expert, that means draw a general conclusions from small things. According to Doyle, the character was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, his professor and lecturer of Medical when he was in college. Total, Sherlock Holmes stories written in the form of four novels, A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and The Valley of Fear, and 56 short stories published in five anthologies, namely The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, His Last Bow, and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes.

• The appearance of Sherlock Holmes

The first appearance of Sherlock Holmes was in 1887 in the novel A Study in Scarlet. At that time, Doyle age just 28 years old, and his work is seen by critics as an exercise, because his structure and style of writing is yet stable. However, this novel remains the most influential work of literature from the 19th century. Previously, the novel script was rejected by a number of publishers. Just after Ward Lock published it, a good public response led Doyle to continue to produce the Sherlock Holmes stories. In 1891, Doyle started its cooperation with the Strand magazine, which publishes short stories about Sherlock Holmes for 25 years!

Most of the Sherlock Holmes stories told by Dr. John H. Watson. Their meeting occurred in 1881, when Dr. Watson, who had to retire early from the military because of an injury, had to find a place to stay in London. Dr Watson ran into his old friend, Stamford, who then, introduced him to Sherlock Holmes, who also was looking for a friend to share the rent of apartments. Shortly, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson agreed to become roommates. Since then, Watson became a partner of Sherlock Holmes in solving the cases that come to their practice: 221B Baker Street.

Watson has two unique role in Sherlock Holmes life, who was described as a loner who had no friends. The first, as an assistant in investigating the case. Second, as a documentary of their cases. Friendship with Watson is the most important relationship that Sherlock Holmes had. Behind the cold character of Sherlock Holmes, he was very fond of his friend.

Watson described Sherlock Holmes as an intelligent man who have bohemian life. It means that although the method of investigation and the way Sherlock Holmes thought was very neat and bright, in personal he is eccentric and messy. Sherlock Holmes also likes to confuse the police whose difficult to follow his genius mind. Therefore, Sherlock Holmes was often labeled as an arrogant, and consider that solving the cases as a game rather than for justice.

• The Proper Era to Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes and Watson popular in the Victorian era because, at that time, the most Britons was very scared with rampant criminal action. The existence of a detective consultant and physician/army, though fictional, make Victorians find a hero. In fact, this different horrendous duo character is still popular until this modern era. 

So that in 1914, made the first film adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes story, A Study In Scarlet. This silent film featuring James Bragington, who actually an accountant. We was chosen because he is considered as the most similar to the illustration of Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget. Unfortunately, this historical movie missing.

Sherlock Holmes who live in the 21st century? That is made by BBC One. The background move from Victorian Era into the millennium, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson put on the internet and Blackberry to solve his cases.

• Sherlock Holmes is a great inspiration for Forensic Science

Sherlock Holmes was a great inspiration for forensic science, especially with his ability to observe traces of shoes, tire tracks, traces of blood, blood spots, bloodstain, the poison residual, and ballistic analysis. Sherlock Holmes is also the first figure who introduce the use of a magnifying glass or loop as a means of investigation. For his services to forensic science, in 2002, the Royal Society of Chemistry in Britain confers honorary fellowship to Sherlock Holmes. He was the only fictional character who accepted the award.

• The Boredom of  Sherlock Holmes Author

Doyle apparently got bored wrote about Sherlock Holmes, and decided to 'kill' this character. In the short story The Final Problem, published in 1893, Doyle brings Sherlock Holmes with his archenemesis, Professor James Moriarty, the criminal consultant. At the climax of the story, they were confronted in the Reichenbach Falls, local tourist attractions in Switzerland, and fight till  they both fall together into the abyss.

Public uproar! A total of 20,000 readers cancel their subscriptions to Strand magazine to show protest against the death of their beloved detective consultant. Finally, with the insistence of the publisher, Doyle re-animate the characters in The Hound of the Baskervilles. Since then, Doyle wrote about Sherlock Holmes over the next 24 years.

• The Creator behind The Character of Sherlock Holmes

No wonder that Sherlock Holmes expert in forensic science as the creator of Sherlock Holmes character is a doctor. But who actually Doyle?

Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland, of Irish descent. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, was an alcoholic. Their families live in poverty and are not too happy.

When Doyle was 9 years old, his wealthy relatives pay him for school. Doyle was studying in a boarding school for 7 years. His free soul and tend to rebel dislike the rigid school system. To amuse himself, he made up a story. Many school friend who likes to listen to Doyle's stories.

In 1876 Doyle graduated, but the father hospitalized in a mental hospital instead. Doyle decided to enter medical school at the University of Edinburgh. In the middle of the study, he took time to write short stories and send it to the media. Doyle was 20 years old when he was offered to become a doctor on the ship, Hope, that towards the North Pole. In this journey, the adventure soul of Doyle honed.

After returning to England, and graduated as a doctor, Doyle opened the practice in Portsmouth. Slow but sure, the career of the young doctor uphill. He also began to build a family together Louisa Hawkins, whom he married in 1885. But that does not mean his desire to become a writer forgotten.

In March 1886, Doyle began writing a novel that catapulted his name. Two years later, the novel A Study in Scarlet appeared, and the world knew Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Then Sherlock Holmes became a legend and Doyle was leaving a career as a physician to fully concentrate as a writer.

In July 1930, the author was found fallen in his yard in East Sussex, with one hand gripping the left chest. He breathed his last surrounded by his family, with his last words were addressed to his wife, "You're Really Beautiful". Words that also reflects the life as the creator of Sherlock Holmes.

What a great story! It turns out that behind the remarkable character of Sherlock Holmes, the creator is also the great one. Because of its legendary, the government opened The Sherlock Holmes Museum which is a privately run museum in London, England, dedicated to the famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It opened in 1990 and is situated in Baker Street, bearing the number 221B by permission of the City of WestminsterHow about it, mate? Have you read all the great stories of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson? I've read everything already you know! There are many other incredible British writers which I will write in my blog. Keep reading my blog, lads. Keep Calm and God Save All of Us!