Sherlock Holmes.
Sherlock Holmes was created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He was created first of all to accumulate money and although was not hated by his creator, he was not particularly liked either as he did not consider it “serious” writing. Arthur after writing the first series of six volumes of shelorck Holmes he decided to move on and to write novels that interested him more. These were popular although they fell short of the new-found popularity that Sherlock Holmes had reached. At this point Arthur was in need of money once again and so in his spare time at his clinic he began to write the second series of Sherlock Holmes covering once again six volumes of books. Around this time he was also loosing large amounts of patients and had also several children all of whom required clothing and feeding. He took up more offers of creating new series. Sherlock homes wrote in popular magazines which means that he trid to make his writing popular and at the same time he was learning what the public wanted to read about.
Sherlock Holmes with his writings often used outside information to which he knew a great deal about. For example, in the book titled “The Speckled Band” he had the villain be a doctor. Arthur himself was a doctor and so knew a large amount of information in any case with regards to medical affairs, and could write the doctors character perfectly, regarding his qualifications. The main plot of the story was of a young woman who lived with her stepfather and sister. Her sister had recently been killed, and the woman herself was shortly to be married, as was her sister before she died. It turned out in the end that her stepfather using an Indian swamp adder (bearing the only poison, which to their medical knowledge was undetectable) had killed her sister and was attempting to do the same to her. Being a doctor and a ships surgeon for a time, Arthur was able to accumulate, not only some money, but also a knowledge of foreign provinces, having travelled more or less all over the world. This gave him knowledge of other places and foreign animals that were regularly mentioned in his books. Again in the speckled band there was a cheetah, baboon and swamp adder, all native to India (apparently). Arthur became a ships surgeon on an arctic whaler because at the time, as with many series of the Sherlock Holmes books because he was short on money, and he had to complete his studies for his qualifications, he returned with enough money to be able to complete his training. He had also managed to save a little for his mother. It is largely believed that Sherlock Holmes was, in fact, based on a real person, a tutor of Arthur back during his studies who made the deduction on a patient. That, judging by the wear in one particular area meant that he was therefore a cobbler because that part was constantly rubbed against the stone, also it turned out to be correct.
