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Was Sherlock Holmes a real person?

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Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character created by the Scottish writer Arthur Conan Doyle. However, Conan Doyle did model Holmes’s methods and mannerisms on those of Dr. Joseph Bell, who had been his professor at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. Conan Doyle took inspiration from Bell’s method of diagnosing a patient’s disease.

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Does Sherlock Holmes die?

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Claiming that Sherlock Holmes distracted him “from better things,” Arthur Conan Doyle in 1893 famously attempted to kill him off in the story “The Final Problem.” Public outcry against the death of Holmes was great. By popular demand, Conan Doyle resurrected his detective in the story “The Adventure of the Empty House” (1903).

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