Can Sherlock Holmes exist in real life?

Sherlock Holmes is actually inspired from a real person! Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has said that the character of Sherlock Holmes was inspired by Joseph Bell , a surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, whom Doyle met in 1877 and had worked for as a clerk. read more

Yes, sir Arthur Conan doyale had the capabilities and now the creators of modern day Sherlock TV shows and movies like mark gatiass and Steven moffat etc. are real life sherlocks cuz to write Sherlock you have to be brainy, brainy enough. read more

Many authors bring Holmes into contact with real-life contemporary people, such as Sigmund Freud or Oscar Wilde or Jack the Ripper or Harry Flashman, or even with fictional characters such as Tarzan, the Loch Ness monster, or Dracula. read more

There have been a host of scholarly works dealing with Sherlock Holmes, some working within the bounds of the Great Game, and some written with the understanding that Holmes is a fictional character. In particular, there have been three major annotated editions of the complete series. read more