Sherlock Holmes is a fiction detective character created by a British  Author " Sir Arthur Conan Doyle".

                    Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.

          Arthur's Inspiration for Holmes

The author, Sir 

Arthur Conan Doyle

 was inspired by the life 

of a real person whom 

he knew. When 

Arthur Conan Doyle was a

 student, his professor

 was a man named

 Dr. Joseph Bell. Dr. Joseph was the inspiration of Sherlock Holmes. 

                  Holmes physical traits

Sherlock Holmes has a

 thin face with steady grey 

eyes that are as sharp as

 eagles. He usually wears a

 frock - coat that is brown. 

He always has a notebook, 

pen and a magnifying 

glass.