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Sherlock Holmes's hawk-like features and piercing eyes, the dressing-gown and pipe, the deerstalker cap and magnifying glass - these details are so familiar that if he were to appear amongst us today we should know him at once.

According to the published stories which first appeared in the Strand Magazine in 1891, he practised as a consulting detective between 1881-1904, while living at 221b Baker Street with his friend and colleague Doctor John H. Watson.

Sherlock Holmes was "the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen", but he was not without feelings, because he appreciated the opera and classical music. He was however reserved towards women, because he felt their influence a distraction to his work, so he would not allow himself (and Watson) to become distracted by a romantic affair.

Sherlock Holmes died sometime in 1904, and since then his home in Baker Street has been kept in excellent condition and people now walk around it and is a museum kept in his and Watson's memory.