The Sherlock Mystery: The Movies And Shows VS The Original Stories

Sherlock Holmes is the character created by author Arthur Conan Doyle, first introduced in 1890 Doyle’s novel, A Study in Scarlett. Since Doyle’s introduction of this wildly intelligent and outrageously attentive detective and his sidekick, John Watson, Sherlock has gone many reiterations that continue to unfold. The BBC show Sherlock has been incredibly popular and put its star, Benedict Cumberbatch, in the limelight as a much desired man. Let’s take a look at the versions of Sherlock on screen and on the page.

Arthur Conan Doyle Creates Sherlock

In 1986, Arthur Conan Doyle was newly married and a struggling author. Doyle was working on his mystery novel A Tangled Skein, which he later renamed A Study in Scarlet. A Study in Scarlet was the first introduction to the famous characters Detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Watson.

This novel finally earned Doyle the respect and visibility as a novelist that he sought. It was the first of 60 stories that Doyle wrote about Sherlock Holmes over the prolific course of his career as a writer. Doyle died of a heart attack July 7, 1930, while walking in his garden while clutching his heart with one hand as he held a flower in the other.