Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) could have had no idea that he was creating such an enduring icon when his first Sherlock Holmes adventure, the novella A Study in Scarlet, was published in 1887.
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character created by the Scottish writer Arthur Conan Doyle. However, Conan Doyle did model Holmes's methods and mannerisms on those of Dr. Joseph Bell, who had been his professor at the University of Edinburgh Medical School.
Arthur Conan Doyle began writing while studying medicine at university in the late 1870s, and had his first short story, "The Mystery of Sasassa Valley", published in September 1879. Eight years later his first Sherlock Holmes story, the novel A Study in Scarlet, was published by Ward Lock & Co.
According to the famous Sherlockian William Baring-Gould, Sherlock Holmes died on his birthday on January 6th, 1957 - when he was 103 years old. Baring-Gould has written about this in his book: Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World's First Consulting Detective
Even though the idea of a detective was born by an artistic character,yet in today's world, detectives have taken professional roots in various enforcement agencies, under constitutional provisions and many others as private detective forces working on many private matters, with lots of confidentiality, and strategies, just to come out with some positive finding.
The bottom line of this story is, how a frictional character became a professional back bone to our society in resolving and decimating crime and criminal roots, if not otherwise, could have damaged our society in number of ways.