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Can I use the Sherlock Holmes character for my story?

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Great News: Now Anyone Can Write and Publish a Sherlock Holmes Story ... Why not be original and make something of your own? ... read more

The following is a list and description of the characters of Sherlock, a British television series that started airing on BBC One in July 2010. The series is a contemporary adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and was created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss. read more

In addition to myriad translations of the Holmes adventures throughout the world, a genre of parodies and pastiches has developed based upon the Sherlock Holmes character. An entire collection of more scholarly “higher criticism” of Conan Doyle’s writings was initiated by Ronald Knox’s “Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes” (1912). read more

Based on my last count, there are 506 'named' characters in the Sherlock Holmes novels and stories who are related to the case. And mind you, I haven't included a lot of characters - the ones that aren't connected with the case. Wow. I mean 506 is a lot. read more

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