Tony Rossiter
Sherlock Holmes caught the public’s imagination in A Study in Scarlet, a short novel published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual 1887. He went on to appear in three more (shortish) novels and over fifty short stories, and Arthur Conan Doyle became (along with HG Wells) the most celebrated popular writer of his age – on both sides of the Atlantic. Thanks to countless film and television adaptations, Sherlock Holmes of 221B Baker Street is still the world’s most famous fictional detective.