Cover of the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 1

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

  1. -
  2. No, he is a fictional character (but he was inspired by a real person).
  3. 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.