The key to exercise solutions in chapter 9.3 - The real Sherlock? for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education
Question
Check your ideas.
Answer
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No, he is a fictional character (but he was inspired by a real person).
He is famous for being a fictional detective in the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, starting with the first book in 1887 and continuing today.