Sherlock Holmes

• Sherlock Holmes was originally going to be called Sherrinford. The name was altered to Sherlock, possibly because of a cricketer who bore the name. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who created Holmes (of course), was a fan of cricket and the name ‘Sherlock’ appears to have stuck in his memory.

• Holmes never says ‘Elementary, my dear Watson’. Not in the ‘canon’ of original Conan Doyle novels and stories. Holmes says ‘Elementary!’ and ‘my dear Watson’ at various points, but the idea of putting them together was a later meme.

• Писатель считал свои рассказы несерьезными и однажды принял решение "убить" своего героя. После публикации рассказа "Последнее дело Холмса" на него посыпался ворох гневных писем и сыщика пришлось "воскресить".

• Sherlock Holmes is the most-filmed fictional character. According to IMDb, Holmes has appeared in 226 films and been played by dozens of different actors since the advent of cinema in the late nineteenth century.

• After years of catching bad guys, Sherlock Holmes eventually retired and became a beekeeper.

Holmes' techniques could be looked upon as the forerunner of modern forensic sciences:

• The use of footprints, shoe prints, horseshoe prints, carriage wheel tracks, and bicycle tracks to identify actions at a crime scene

• The use of tobacco ashes and cigarette butts to identify criminals

• The use of typewritten letters to expose a fraud

• The deduction of murder from two pieces of human remains

• The observation of gunpowder residue on victim

• The observation of use of bullets from murder weapon from two crime scenes

• The use of a fingerprint to free an innocent man