FREE SPIRIT : Conan Doyle also wrote about history, war, and communicating with the dead
Within that exclusive group of literary characters who have survived through the centuries from Hercules to Hamlet to Huckleberry Finn few can rival the cultural impact or staying power of that brilliant sleuth, Sherlock Holmes. Since his debut 120 years ago, the gaunt gentleman with the curved pipe and a taste for cocaine, the master of deductive reasoning and elaborate disguise, has left his mark everywhere in crime literature, film and television, cartoons and comic books. Even his home on Baker Street has for decades been one of London's most popular tourist destinations: the Sherlock Holmes...
