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Who would have thought 21st Baker Street was fiction? Yes, a debate of fiction and reality. I must say ardent fans and disciples of Mr.Holmes like me couldn’t differentiate between reality and fiction. And those who say they can, well you haven’t read Sherlock’s adventures. Read and be converted in faith, washed in the logic of a mastermind.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has created a person and breathed life into him that even now, we stand amazed at the feats of the Hero. How it draws the readers to realize the logic behind the illogic and the simplicity at which it is revealed. People may say that this character is actually real and the store is just the manifestation of Dr. Joseph Bell, a professor at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. Conan Doyle worked as a clerk for Dr. Joseph Bell where he got to understand the methods and ways that would be later translated as deduction in the Sherlock Tales. But credit should be given to Sir Arthur for being able to bring out the essence and details of the character and giving life to an unknown. The setting of each story and character especially that of the narrator, Dr. Watson who is none other than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself, puts the reader through his lens seeing and feeling the same things he feel and sees.

But the highlight of all the Sherlock tales has to be the crimes and the way it keeps us on toes always thinking who the villain would turn out to be. Sir Arthur has wisely strung the whole story with a main villain but I would prefer those individual stories that sort of relays the true reality that we are surrounded by bad people and not just a person. Next comes the cues and puzzles that are laid for the readers to find and just when we think that we have solved the puzzle, Sherlock hits us so hard with his observations and then we have that eureka moment and later curse ourselves for missing the clues. By that time we have just realized that we have exhausted our minds yet the adrenaline and the ecstasy of watching the puzzle unfold. The only thing now left is a bow and you as a reader realize that it was just elementary after all.