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Sherlock Holmes.(News)

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From: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
Date: 20051209
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Byline: By BRIAN LEE Western Mail

Of all the fictional detectives in the history of literature, film and television, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes is undoubtedly the most famous and most loved throughout the world. The pipe smoking caped crusader is so popular that many pale imitations of him have been created over the years. Doyle's creation, which is said to have been based on a doctor and teacher he had studied with at Edinburgh University, is still recognised as the greatest detective of all time. Holmes's sidekick Dr Watson had a lot in common with his ...

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