Sherlock Holmes stories became extremely successful and were enormously

Sherlock Holmes stories became extremely successful and were enormously

popular amongst people.

SHERLOCK HOLMES

Sherlock Holmes detective stories have been known and loved by people

all around the world. Something magical was about the character of

Sherlock Holmes that makes him so famous all around the world. Sir

Arthur Conan Doyle wrote Sherlock Holmes stories. The author was a

young age doctor in 1886 when he set up a medical practice in South

sea, Hampshire. With fewer patients, making their way to his surgery

there was a lot of free time when he scribbled down some ideas for a

story involving a brilliant detective. Conan Doyle had already

previously published some short stories and articles and had been

working on two other novels when he became fascinated in writing an

original detective novel.

A Study in Scarlet was the first novel of Sherlock Holmes and was

published in 1887. Despite establishing those characteristics of

Sherlock Holmes, which was to make it so fascinating to read, the

story attracted little attention. About 44 stories and novels have

been published of Sherlock Holmes. These stories have been translated

to nearly every language.

Sherlock Holmes stories became extremely successful and were

enormously popular amongst people. There were many reasons for the

story to become so popular. The first and the main reason was that

Sherlock Holmes was the man who solved all the crimes and always

caught criminals. He was like the hero of the people in the Victorian

time when crimes were so widespread. London was dark and there was no

electricity at that time. People were scared to go out of their houses

at night when crime levels were so high. A perfect example of it is

jack the ripper. He was a violent murder and targeted pimps and

prostitutes. To people’s horror he also use to post body parts to the

police. The police could not catch him and people were getting furious

with them. There was no safety to the people. In such a situation and

environment, the hero for them was Sherlock Holmes. Not only that he

always solved the case he also caught the criminals and was against

evil. In his fiction stories, he was solving crimes that which people

expected from the police in real life.

People started getting interested in reading more and more about the

character of Sherlock Holmes and the way he solved the case. It was an

entertainment for people when they were travelling and there was

nothing else to do.

Sir Arthur Canon Doyle’s was now starting to run out of stories for

Sherlock Holmes and even noted a point in his autobiography: “The