Famous Characters in Fiction: Sherlock Holmes
Famous Characters in Fiction: Sherlock Holmes is an article published in the Daily Express (kids section) on 15 july 1933.
Famous Characters in Fiction: Sherlock Holmes
Certainly the most famous detective in storyland is Sherlock Holmes.
All you boys and girls will know that he is the hero of a large number of stories which were written by the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Sherlock Holmes first appeared in a book called "A Study in Scarlet," in 1887. Most of the stories of this super-sleuth are narrated by his friend, Dr. Watson. Holmes is pictured as a sharp-featured man with uncanny powers of observation and deduction, and a glance or two and a few minutes' serious thinking almost invariably put him on the track of the solution of any mystery he was probing.
He would tell you a person's height from the length of his stride as indicated by footprints, or, in another case, by measuring the height from the ground of some writing on the wall Holmes pointing out that in writing on a wall a man would always write on a level with his eyes.
Every one should read Conan Doyle's stories of Sherlock Holmes, not only because they are exceedingly interesting but because they teach us how to use our eyes and all the things that we can learn from what we see.
