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Sherlock Holmes is often seen through movies and modern retellings that reshape who he was and how he worked. The original stories by Arthur Conan Doyle present a more complex detective than popular culture suggests. This article looks at common misunderstandings and explains what Holmes was actually like in the canon.
#1: 221B Baker Street is a fictionalized address created for the stories
Sherlock Holmes’s famous address 221B Baker Street is often treated as a real London location, but it was fictional at the time of writing. The street numbering did not originally include that specific address, and the Sherlock Holmes Museum later adopted it, reinforcing a fictional location that became culturally iconic.
