Pipe-smoking, funny-hat-wearing detective Sherlock Holmes is the standard by which ... Doyle's beloved detective was very much inspired by a real person. Born in 1837, Joseph Bell was a Scottish ...

The new CBS series may not seem faithful to the original Conan Doyle stories, but it is faithful to the man himself.

On Feb. 11 1959, Dr. Philip S. Hench, recipient of a Nobel Prize in physiology, gave a talk at the Mayo Foundation House ...

Was there ever a greater description of a fictional villain than the “Napoleon of crime”, as Sherlock Holmes brands his ... In fact, Moriarty was real – or at least his incredible character ...

Now, Shinwell is the one who tells Watson that Sherlock didn’t make it out of the water at Reichenbach Falls after he and ...

The iconic detective Sherlock Holmes was created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. First appearing in print in the 1887 story A Study in Scarlet, Holmes has since been reimagined, recreated, and ...