{"id":2186,"date":"2019-09-17T10:17:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T10:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.storytourist.com\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2021-11-02T06:44:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T05:44:56","slug":"ten-odd-sherlock-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.storytourist.com\/fi\/ten-odd-sherlock-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten odd Sherlock facts"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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New release!<\/h5>

You\u2019re aware that our Sherlock Holmes walking tour<\/a> through London has been released, right?<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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About the tour<\/h5>

During the tour you\u2019ll take part in the Sherlock short story \u201cThe Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle\u201d. You\u2019ll walk in Sherlock\u2019s footsteps and try to solve the case of the stolen blue jewel. Dr John Watson will be at your service, narrating the story and guiding you through the Victorian streets and alleys.\u00a0<\/p>

And, to prepare for the tour – here\u2019s a little extra treat for all of you Sherlockians out there. We give you ten odd Sherlock facts.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Ten odd Sherlock facts<\/h5>
The address<\/h5>

There was no 221B Baker Street when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Sherlock Holmes. The numbering of Baker Street only ran up to 85 at the time. It is believed that Doyle assigned a higher number to the address to make sure he wasn\u2019t using someone\u2019s actual address. The Sherlock Holmes museum has a blue plaque on its fa\u00e7ade stating that its\u2019 address is 221B Baker Street, but that is incorrect as well. The museum\u2019s address is between 237 and 241\u00a0Baker Street.<\/p>

Exact rather than elementary<\/h5>

The phrase \u201cElementary, my dear Watson\u201d is a myth, and is never uttered in any of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle\u2019s stories about the detective. The closest we get is \u201cExactly, my dear Watson\u201d, which Sherlocks says in three different tales.<\/p>

The brother<\/h5>

While Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock\u2019s older brother, often was featured on the recent BBC adaption of the novels, he wasn\u2019t very visible in the original stories. Mycroft Holmes only appears in two of them and is mentioned in passing in another two.<\/p>

The 1900 movie<\/h5>

The first on-screen adaptation of Sherlock Holmes is almost 120 years old! It was a silent movie called \u201cSherlock Holmes baffled\u201d which was only 30 seconds long and produced in 1900.<\/p>

The name<\/h5>

Arthur Conan Doyle considered several different names for his two main characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson. A couple of options were Sherrinford Holmes and Ormond Sacker.<\/p>

Inspired by real life person<\/h5>

The real-life person who was Doyle\u2019s inspiration for Sherlock was his former teacher; Dr Joseph Bell. Dr Bell himself has disputed this, saying that Holmes was a creation of Doyle\u2019s own gifts and training as an M.D.<\/p>

The resurrection<\/h5>

After six years of writing the wildly popular Sherlock Holmes stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was bored with the character. He decided to kill him off in the novel \u201cThe Final Problem\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>

In this story Sherlock encounters his arch-nemesis Moriarty and they both plunge to their deaths at the Swiss Reichenbach Falls. Doyle’s readers were VERY upset about this. As a result, he was flooded by letters from angry Sherlockians. Eight years later he had an idea for a story that demanded a detective character. Instead of inventing a new one \u2013 he decided to bring back Sherlock Holmes and place the setting of the story before Sherlock\u2019s death. This novel is the very famous \u201cThe Hound of the Baskervilles\u201d.<\/p>

After that, Arthur Conan Doyle caved for the public and revived Sherlock by bringing him back to life in the tale \u201cThe Empty House\u201d, where it was explained how Sherlock managed to escape death at the Reichenbach Falls.<\/p>

Mixed reality<\/h5>

It\u2019s a common misconception that Sherlock Holmes was an actual live person. Even in Arthur Conan Doyle\u2019s day, he received plenty of letters from people who wished to hire the genius detective to solve their cases.<\/p>

200 adaptions \u2013 a record<\/h5>

Sherlock Holmes is said to be the most filmed character of all time \u2013 having starred in more than 200 different adaptations.<\/p>

Drug use for art’s sake<\/h5>

Actor William Gillette went to extreme lengths to accurately portray Sherlock Holmes on stage. In a 1900 theatre production he even injected himself with liquid cocaine during his performance, to bear as much likeness with the opium-loving character as possible.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New release! You\u2019re aware that our Sherlock Holmes walking tour through London has been released, right? Get it here! About the tour During the tour you\u2019ll take part in the Sherlock short story \u201cThe Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle\u201d. You\u2019ll walk in Sherlock\u2019s footsteps and try to solve the case of the stolen blue jewel. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,80,81],"tags":[75,78,73,57,58,95,79],"class_list":["post-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","category-london","category-sherlock-holmes","tag-dr-john-watson","tag-london","tag-sherlock-holmes","tag-storytour","tag-storytourist","tag-the-adventure-of-the-blue-carbuncle","tag-walking-tour"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/mllm7nfkytow.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.storytourist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/10-things-about-Sherlock-banner-updated.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.storytourist.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.storytourist.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.storytourist.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.storytourist.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.storytourist.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.storytourist.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.storytourist.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.storytourist.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.storytourist.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.storytourist.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}