Holmes. Everyone calls him Holmes
When the words “Sherlock Holmes” fall upon our ears our mind immediately pictures a tall, lean but rather pale British man dressed in a peculiar cap, a long loose coat who has a pipe in his mouth and pure magic in his mind. A man bestowed with unwavering logic and clear reason who knows London at the back of his hand. Those who read Holmes’ novels of Doyle know that these epithets do not do justice to his personality. And for those who do not read his novels, well, what are you even waiting for? The prototype for the modern mastermind detective , Holmes first appeared in Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet , published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual of 1887. As the world’s first and only “consulting detective,” he pursued criminals throughout Victorian and Edwardian London the south of England and continental Europe. This “high functioning sociopath” as he calls himself solves the most baffling cases by one of a kind observation, reasoning but very little