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Every year, thousands of people visit one of the world's most famous address:221B Baker Street, London. The address is famous for being where the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes lived in the well-known stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

A lot of people are so taken wish the stories that they forget Sherlock Holmes wasn't a real person and therefore didn't ever actually live at the address. In fact, there was no house there when Conan Doyle wrote the stories. Despite that, the Sherlock Holmes Museum, which is actually at Number 239, is a fun place to visit if you are ever in London.

So, if Sherlock Holmes is a made-up character, why do so many people think of him as a real person?

It is often said that the character Sherlock Holmes was based on a real person named Benjamin Bell. a forensic surgeon(法医外科医生)for whom Conan Doyle worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Hospital. Sherlock Holmes' problem-solving ability and power of observation are based on the surgeon. Bell was called on by the police to join in several investigations, just as Sherlock Holmes did.

Conan Doyle found the inspiration for the name of his famous detective elsewhere, though. He was an expect cricket player and combined the names of two other well-known players, Shacklock and Sherwin, to make the name "Sherlock".

Another thing that makes the character seem like a real person is his distinctive habits. He rarely ate breakfast and he enjoyed smoking. He even had a habit that would be illegal today-taking cocaine.

Sherlock Holmes is also an honorary member of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Even though he's not a real person, the society decided to make him a member. Although his famous methods for solving mysteries started in fiction, many of them became part of modern-day policing.

Although the character is made-up, most of the locations are real. One of Conan Doyle's strengths as an author is describing a London that seems so real to the reader. Most of the famous locations in the books are in London and Sherlock Holmes fans love to visit the locations in the books and those used later in the movies.

Sherlock Holmes is the second most represented character in movies, which is part of what makes him so famous all over the world. So, now what's your favourite version of the Sherlock Holmes stories? The books, movies or TV series?

【语篇导读】本文是一篇记叙文,介绍了福尔摩斯这个故事的由来和 221B Baker Street以福尔摩斯著名。