What is the best thing about Sherlock Holmes?

He is the world's only "consulting detective" He is the world's most filmed character, after Count Dracula He has an I-care-a-damn-attitude towards people. His fantastic knowledge about the city of London. read more

How precise he is. And I'm not just talking about his amazing deductions, which turn out to be right on the bulls-eye. read more

Perhaps best-known for Holmes’s famous line about ‘the curious incident of the dog in the night-time’ (used by Mark Haddon as the title for his bestselling novel), ‘Silver Blaze’ is the first story in the second collection of classic Sherlock Holmes stories, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893). read more

Basil Rathbone played Holmes and Nigel Bruce played Watson in fourteen U.S. films (two for 20th Century Fox and a dozen for Universal Pictures) from 1939 to 1946, and in The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on the Mutual radio network from 1939 to 1946 (before the role of Holmes passed to Tom Conway). read more