Was Sherlock Holmes a real person?

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character created by the Scottish writer Arthur Conan Doyle. Conan Doyle took inspiration from Bell’s method of diagnosing a patient’s disease.

How is Sherlock Holmes so smart?

Sherlock Holmes’s success as a “consulting detective” comes from his uncanny ability to gather evidence based upon his honed skills of observation and deductive reasoning. Holmes offered some insight into his method, claiming, “When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

Included Novels:
• A Study in Scarlet
• The Sign of the Four
• The Hound of the Baskervilles
• The Valley of Fear

Included Collections:
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes
• His Last Bow