May 22 is “Sherlock Holmes Day,” honoring the birthday of his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes, who turns 135 this year, is one of the most famous literary characters in the world and ...

From Robert Downey Jr to Benedict Cumberbatch, we count down the 20 best portrayals of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes 20 ... up an ensemble cast including Roy Kinnear, Kenneth Williams and Prunella ...

Sherlock Holmes is one of the most popular literary characters of all time, and as such, he and his cases have been adapted to all types of media for decades. Thanks to the state of the rights to ...

Created by ophthalmologist-turned-author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887, Sherlock Holmes is the most famous detective in fiction (fine, after Batman, but he’s more famous for being a detective.

"It is to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes," wrote Arthur Conan Doyle to his former professor and mentor, Dr. Joseph Bell, in 1892. A distinguished physician and professor of medicine at Edinburgh ...