The enduring icon of crime fiction, probably for centuries to come, written for by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Characterised as being: - a 'consulting detective' resident with (and occasionally without) his friend John H. Watson M.D. in 221B Baker Street, London; - an Oxbridge graduate (one of the great debates is which university and which college...) in chemistry, with a particular hobby of forensics; - tall, thin, eccentric and active, with a tendency to be very fastidious in his dress; - clothed (by stereotype) in a tweed suit and ulster overcoat with an Inverness cape, deerstalker cap and pipe. (The look was originally invented by the American actor W.S. Gilette for a series of Sherlock Holmes plays brought to the stage as Conan Doyle was writing some of his later stories: the only place where it's nearly described in the actual canon is in 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'.) ObSF: featured in SherlockHolmesAgainstTheMartians. Also featured in more spin-off or spoof movies than you can shake an elegant walking-stick at... Also on telly: one example here - http://www.imdb.com/Mlinks?0098765 CategoryBook (four long stories and scads of short stories: many, many editions...) CategoryRadioProgramme (Clive Merrison as the detective) CategoryMovie