A master of deductive reasoning who can solve the most difficult crimes by spotting obscure
clues overlooked by others dilettante sleuth Sherlock Holmes was the hero of sixty stories
written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle between 1887 and 1927. With the help of his loyal friend
Doctor Watson Holmes brought countless crooks thieves swindlers and murderers to justice.
He even rose from the dead after Doyle tried to dispatch him in his twenty-fourth adventure
and readers protested. Some Sherlock Holmes stories rank among the most famous in detective
fiction among them A Study in Scarlet A Scandal in Bohemia The Speckled Band and The Hound
of the Baskervilles.
