Every year, thousands of people visit one of the world' s famous addresses:221b
Baker Street, London.
The address if famous for being where the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes lived in the well-known stories by Sir Arthur gonan Doyle.
A loft of people are so taken with the sotries that they forget Sherlock Holmes wasn't a real person and therefore didn't ever actually live at the address. In fact, there was no house there when Conan Doyle wrote the stories.
So, if Sherlock Homes was a made up character, why do so many people think of him like a real person?
It is often said that the charcter Sherlock Holmes was based on a real person named Benjamin Bell.
Another thind that makes the character seem like a real person is his distinctive habits. He rarly ate breakfast and had three piples which he enjoyed smoking.
Although his famous methods for sloving mysteries started in fiction, many of them became part of modern-day policing.
Although the charccter is made-up most of the locations are real.
Most of the famous locations in the books are in London and Sherlock Homes fans love to visit the locations in the books and those used later in the movies.
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