Still Life with Fan Painting by Paul Gauguin

The universal fame of Arthur Conan Doyle rests on his creation of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and his ingenuous companion Dr Watson, the most wonderful and fascinating characters in the Western detective fiction. Sherlock Holmes appears to the readers as a quiet and intelligent character who is so life-like that readers forget that they are reading about a fictitious character. Holmes first appeared in Doyle’s story A study ion Scarlet that was published as a serial in the Strand Magazine