I would say a word for Watson also, who in the course of seven volumes never shows one gleam of humor or makes one single joke. He is a calculating machine and anything you add to that simply weakens the effect. If I have sometimes been inclined to weary of him it is because his character admits of no light or shade. Holmes’ adventures total four novels and 56 short stories.Īs he explained in the single chapter of his 1924 autobiography devoted to the most famous character in detective fiction, “I do not wish to be ungrateful to Holmes, who has been a good friend to me in many ways. Arthur Conan Doyle famously tired of Sherlock Holmes and repeatedly tried to end the series of stories featuring the detective he dismissively called “my most notorious character.” On each occasion, though, an intense popular clamor - and the opportunity it afforded to shore up the author’s shaky finances - coaxed Conan Doyle into an additional sequence of stories.
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