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221b Baker Street. Mr. Sherlock Holmes, and his colleague John H. Watson, M.D., spent many years at this address in London, England, under the rent of Mrs. Hudson. Characters of every type have frequented the rooms of this place, calling on Mr. Holmes for help and assistance on mysteries only the finest criminal detective could unravel.

Elementary, My Dear Watson..

Sherlock Holmes, the amateur detective, chemist, violin player, boxer, and swordsman (among other talents), first appeared in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet in the Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887.
Favorite Holmes story:
A Scandal in Bohemia

Most diabolical villians:
Moriarty (of course)
Charles Augustus Milverton
Isadora Klein
Baron Adelbert Gruner

Favorite Holmes' lines:
I have no data. It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data
(Scandal in Bohemia)

M y mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
(The Sign of the Four)

I t is quite a three pipe problem
(The Red-Headed League)

Y ou see, but you do not observe
(Scandal in Bohemia)

H ow often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
(A Study in Scarlet)

M ediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
(The Valley of Fear)

I s there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
"To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time."
"The dog did nothing in the night-time."
"That was the curious incident"
(Silver Blaze)

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson went on a camping trip. As they lay down for the night, Holmes said: "Watson, look up into the sky and tell me what you see."
Watson said: "I see millions and millions of stars."
Holmes: "And what does that tell you?"
Watson: "Astronomically, it tells me that there are million of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Theologically it tells me that God is great and that we are small and insignificant. Meteorologically it tells me that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow.
What does it tell you?"
Holmes: "Somebody stole our tent."
Holmes's birthday: January 6, 1854 (according to Christopher Morley, pioneer American Sherlockian). At any rate apparently he was a Capricorn.

Holmes's family:

  • A brother, Mycroft Holmes, mentioned in several of the stories
  • Speculations about other relatives

    Holmes's companion: John H. Watson, late of the Army Medical Department

  • Ted Skinner, "Watson's Value to the Canon"
  • Les Klinger, "Art in Whose Blood?"

    Holmes's arch-enemy: Professor James Moriarty -- see the Professor Moriarty page on Sherlockian.Net.

    Holmes's love life: To Sherlock Holmes Irene Adler was always The Woman. The Irene Adler page on Sherlockian.Net. Besides her, there's always Maud Bellamy of "The Lion's Mane". And then there's Mary Russell.

    Holmes's hobbies: Some sports ("an excellent boxer, singlestick player and swordsman"); music (played the violin, and wrote a monograph about Orlando di Lasso); obscure knowledge (the Buddhism of Ceylon, the warships of the future); tobacco.

    When did the stories take place? About Sherlockian chronology

    Holmes's retirement: To Sussex, to keep bees, according to a couple of the later stories. Jim Byrd has some speculations about the details.



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