Readers love detectives and smart, insightful detectives. Commissar Megre, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and many others are not perceived as literary characters, but as completely living people. Many refuse to believe that in fact such people never existed, and that they are only a figment of the imagination of writers of the detective genre. But without any exaggeration, we can say that the most beloved detective of all times and peoples remains Sherlock Holmes - a hero who emerged from the pen of the famous English writer Arthur Conan Doyle.
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The glory of Sherlock Holmes is truly immense, in London on Baker Street there is a museum of his name. It is to the museum’s address that the famous detective receives thousands of letters in which not only children, but also quite adult people turn to him as a real person. That is, the most famous English detective also lives his own life, separate from the book and writer Arthur Conan Doyle.
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At one point, Arthur Conan Doyle thought that Sherlock Holmes had exhausted himself as a character in his works. That is why he decided to kill him. But the writer arranged the death of his hero beautifully - he died in a fight with one of the leaders of the criminal world of London - Professor Moriarty. They both fell into Reichenbach Falls. It seemed that the story of the famous detective was over
.But it was not there! Readers literally bombarded Conan Doyle with bags of letters, demanding the resurrection of his beloved detective. And the writer could not stand this pressure, gave up and gave Sherlock Holmes the opportunity to escape.
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In general, the works of Sherlock Holmes became the writer's day and glory and a kind of curse. After all, Conan Doyle sought to write serious historical novels, plays and even not the worst poems, but this was not in demand. And Sherlock Holmes, meanwhile, was only gaining popularity and, in general, healed, as was said above, his own life.
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The famous detective reappeared in “Return of Sherlock Holmes” and not only neutralized the associate of Professor Moriarty - Colonel Sebastian Moran, but also told Dr. Watson how he managed to escape. It turns out that falling into a waterfall from Moriarty, Holmes was able to cling to a rock, and hanging on a rock above the waterfall, managed to find a ledge, on which he supported himself with his feet, and later got out. That is how he managed to survive in this most life-threatening situation. The famous detective did not get into such bindings anymore. No, he stood at a dangerous point several times, but Arthur Conan Doyle prudently kept his character alive and well.
