Sherlock Holmes tome 4

IS A FICTIONAL PRIVATE DETECTIVE CREATED BY BRITISH AUTHOR SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE REFERRING TO HIMSELF AS A CONSULTING DE TECTIVE IN THE STORIES, HOLMES IS KNOWN FOR HIS PROFICIENCY WITH OBSERVATION, DEDUCTION, FORENSIC SCIENCE, AND LOGICAL REASON ING THAT BORDERS ON THE FANTASTIC, WHICH HE EMPLOYS WHEN INVES TIGATING CASES FOR A WIDE VARIETY OF CLIENTS, INCLUDING SCOTLAND YARD FIRST APPEARING IN PRINT IN 1887 SA STUDY IN SCARLET, THE CHARAC TER'S POPULARITY BECAME WIDESPREAD WITH THE FIRST SERIES OF SHORT STORIES IN THE STRAND MAGAZINE, BEGINNING WITH A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA IN 1891 ADDITIONAL TALES APPEARED FROM THEN UNTIL 1927. EVENTUALLY TOTALING FOUR NOVELS AND 56 SHORT STORIES ALL BUT ONE ARE SET IN THE VICTORIAN OR EDWARDIAN ERAS, BETWEEN ABOUT 1880 AND 1914. MOST ARE NARRATED BY THE CHARACTER OF HOL MES'S FRIEND AND BIOGRAPHER DR. JOHN H. WATSON, WHO USUALLY AC COMPANIES HOLMES DURING HIS INVESTIGATIONS AND OFTEN SHARES QUARTERS WITH HIM AT THE ADDRESS OF 221B BAKER STREET, LONDON, WHERE MANY OF THE STORIES BEGIN. THOUGH NOT THE FIRST FICTIONAL DETECTIVE, SHERLOCK HOLMES IS AR GUABLY THE BEST KNOWN [1] BY THE 1990S THERE WERE ALREADY OVER 25,000 STAGE ADAPTATIONS, FILMS, TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS AND PUB LICATIONS FEATURING THE DETECTIVE, AND GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS LISTS HIM AS THE MOST PORTRAYED LITERARY HUMAN CHARACTER IN FILM AND TELEVISION HISTORY HOLMES'S POPULARITY AND FAME ARE SUCH THAT MANY HAVE BELIEVED HIM TO BE NOT A FICTIONAL CHARACTER BUT A REAL INDIVIDUAL NUMER OUS LITERARY AND FAN SOCIETIES HAVE BEEN FOUNDED ON THIS PRE TENSE AVID READERS OF THE HOLMES STORIES HELPED CREATE THE MODERN PRACTICE OF FANDOM THE CHARACTER AND STORIES HAVE HAD A PROFOUND AND LASTING EFFECT ON MYSTERY WRITING AND POPULAR CULTURE AS A WHOLE. WITH THE ORIGINAL TALES AS WELL AS TROU SANDS WRITTEN BY AUTHORS OTHER THAN CONAN DOYLE BEING ADAPT ED INTO STAGE AND RADIO PLAYS, TELEVISION, FILMS, VIDEO GAMES, AND OTHER MEDIA FOR OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS