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- The phrase ‘Elementary my dear Watson’ was never mentioned in the Sherlock Holmes books
- Sherlock means blonde, but the main characters are all dark haired
- Holmes is modeled after the Scottish physician Joseph Bell
- Holmes’ famous deerstalker cap was not created by Doyle, but by the illustrator, Sidney Paget
- “when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” is the most famous true quote written by Conan Doyle
- Watson has a bullet wound that was first described as being in the shoulder, but in another story the wound had moved to the leg
- The only woman to have beaten Holmes was Irene Adler
- Sherlock Holmes’ creator ironically believed in and was committed to spiritualism, fairies and ghosts
- There are more than 260 movies, 2 musicals and a ballet based on the book
- In 1964, Sherlock Holmes books were the best sellers second only to the Bible
- Sherlock abused cocaine and morphine in “The Sign Of Four”
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