I started reading the Holmes stories, and I was hooked.

First, he described how his reading of the Holmes stories of a 12-year-old boy had influenced him to become a physician.

Formal members are known as "investitures" and bear club titles derived from the Holmes stories.

The character has been used many times in works that are not adaptations of Holmes stories:

It is one of the few Holmes stories in which a fingerprint provides a good clue to the nature of the problem.

Doyle later revealed that he thought this was his best Holmes story.

Liberty opened about the same time as the original Holmes stories, so it seemed sort of appropriate.

In all, he illustrated one Holmes novel and 37 Holmes short stories.

The pleasure of the Holmes stories arises from just such elegant logic.

Holmes stories often begin with a bravura display of his talent for "deduction".