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Sherlock Holmes is a literary character of a private detective from the stories and novels of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whose cases take place in the period from the second half of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century. The entire work contains 4 novels and 56 short stories, which were published between 1887 and 1927. The characters from the novels later came to life many more times in the works of other authors on paper, on the screen, on radio, on television, and on computer monitors.