A brilliant London-based " consulting detective " residing at 221B Baker Street, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and is renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning, and forensic skills to solve difficult cases.

From 1881, Holmes was described as having lodgings at 221B, Baker Street, London, from where he runs his consulting detective service.

Although he initially needed Watson to share the rent of his comfortable residence at 221B Baker Street, Watson reveals in " The Adventure of the Dying Detective ", when Holmes was living alone, that " I have no doubt that the house might have been purchased at the price which Holmes paid for his rooms ," suggesting he had developed a good income from his practice, although it is seldom revealed exactly how much he charges for his services.

For Field, a statement like " 2 + 2 = 4 " is just as fictitious as " Sherlock Holmes lived at 221B Baker Street " — but both are true according to the relevant fictions.

Outside the Marylebone Road exits, a large statue of Sherlock Holmes commemorates the fictional detective's association with 221B Baker Street.

* The fictional character Sherlock Holmes has a blue plaque on the supposed site of 221B Baker Street, London, W1, placed there on behalf of the Sherlock Holmes Museum which now occupies the site.

Watson arrives at 221B Baker Street to find Holmes in bed at seven in the evening while Billy the page explains that Holmes has been hot on the trail of a missing jewel, a Crown diamond no less, worth about £ 100, 000.

Holmes live at 221B Baker Street-a fictional address since Baker Street was much shorter in Victorian times.

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In 1887, Scotsman Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( 1859 – 1930 ) gave fresh impetus to the emerging form of the detective story by creating Sherlock Holmes, resident at 221B Baker Street, London — probably the most famous of fictional detectives and the first one to have clients, to be hired to solve a case.

Holmes asks Dr. Watson to join him at 221B Baker Street at 3 o ' clock the following afternoon.

Watson escorts Miss Murray to Sherlock Holmes ' residence at 221B Baker Street, and Holmes soon becomes interested in the case.

He gets three applicants at 221B Baker Street for the job, and one of them is indeed Peter Carey ’ s killer, as confirmed by his name, Patrick Cairns ( the tobacco pouch was his, not Carey ’ s ), and the fact that Holmes had established that he was once Carey ’ s shipmate.

In 1990, a blue plaque signifying 221B Baker Street was installed at the Sherlock Holmes Museum, situated elsewhere on the same block, and there followed a 15-year dispute between Abbey National and the Holmes Museum for the right to receive mail addressed to 221B Baker Street.

We met next day as he had arranged, and inspected the rooms at No. 221B, Baker Street, of which he had spoken at our meeting.

However, a British crime novelist named Nigel Morland claimed that, late in Conan Doyle's life, he identified the intersection of Baker Street and George Street, about 500 metres south of Marylebone Road, as the location of 221B.

Sherlockian experts have also held to alternative theories as to where the original 221B was located and have maintained that it was further down Baker Street.

The Sherlock Holmes Museum is situated within an 1815 townhouse very similar to the 221B described in the stories and is located between 237 and 241 Baker Street.

According to the published stories, " 221B Baker Street " was a suite of rooms on the first floor of a lodging house above a flight of 17 steps.

The street number 221B was assigned to the Sherlock Holmes Museum on 27 March 1990 ( replacing the logical address 239 Baker Street ) when the Leader of Westminster City Council, Lady Shirley Porter, unveiled a blue plaque signifying the address of " 221B Baker Street.

221B is an apartment up 17 steps, stated in an early manuscript to be at the " upper end " of the road.

N. 239 is the Sherlock Holmes Museum, with " 221B " written above the door.

The street is most famous for its connection to the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, who lives at a fictional 221B Baker Street address.

Dr. Watson is called to 221B Baker Street to tend Holmes, who is apparently dying of a rare Asian disease contracted while he was on a case at Rotherhithe.

Dr. Trevelyan ’ s brougham is sent to 221B Baker Street to bring Holmes to the scene.

The American Garrideb comes to see Holmes and Watson at 221B Baker Street, and is apparently not very pleased that Nathan Garrideb has involved a detective.

He meets a lounger with a rather military appearance in the street, and later observes him running to catch the train at Blackheath Station as he is returning to 221B Baker Street.

Where Holmes's stories are narrated by his companion Dr. Watson, the Pons stories are narrated by Dr. Lyndon Parker ; in the Pons stories Holmes and Watson share lodgings not at 221B Baker Street but at 7B Praed Street, whereas their landlady is not Mrs. Hudson but Mrs. Johnson.

It opened in 1990 and is situated in Baker Street, bearing the number 221B by permission of the City of Westminster, although it lies between numbers 237 and 241, near the north end of Baker Street in central London close to Regent's Park.

* In the MMORPG Wizard101, a detective named Sherlock Bones lives in an apartment at 221B Barker Street in Marleybone, a spoof of 19th century London populated by dogs.

The address 221B was the subject of a protracted dispute between the museum and the nearby Abbey National building.

* Sherlock Holmes, a fictional character who " resides " at 221B Baker Street

* Memorabilia, such as statuettes, drawings, and movie posters, that concern the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, his associates such as Dr. Watson and Inspector Lestrade, and his dwellings at 221B Baker Street ;

The story begins with a visit to 221B Baker Street from Steve Dixie, a black man and a cowardly ruffian who warns Sherlock Holmes to keep away from Harrow.

Both live in Holmestead, a mouse community built in the cellar of Sherlock Holmes ' residence at 221B Baker Street.

The Georgian town house which the museum occupies as " 221B Baker Street " was formerly used as a boarding house from 1860 to 1936, and covers the period of 1881 to 1904 when Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson were reported to have resided there as tenants of Mrs Hudson.

The main objection to the Museum's role in answering the letters was the prosaic fact that the number 221B bestowed on the Museum by the Council was out of sequence with other numbers in the street: an issue that has since vexed local bureaucrats, who have striven for years to keep street numbers in sequence.

It was designed and storyboarded by 221B Software Development.

Watson arrives at 221B with the police in tow.

In the American `` hardboiled '' detective story of the '20s and '30s, the spirit of the mad genius from Baker Street lives on.

Daniel Baker deluged his `` Unckle Quyne '' with requests to pay money for him to drapers in Watling Street and at the Two Cats in Canning Street.

He then joined a 30-student Holmwood academy, in Baker Street, Enfield, Middlesex under the Reverend Stephen Freeman.

* Leslie Caron, Une Française à Hollywood ( Mémoires ), ( translation: Anne-Marie Hussein ) published by Baker Street ( US ), 2011, ISBN 978-2-917559-16-1

Tiling at Baker Street incorporates repetitions of Sherlock Holmes's silhouette.

In the film The Great Mouse Detective, the villain Ratigan attempts to kill the film's heroes, Basil of Baker Street and David Q. Dawson, with a Rube Goldberg style device.

Until the arrival of Dr. Watson, Holmes worked alone, only occasionally employing agents from the city's underclass, including a host of informants and a group of street children he calls " the Baker Street Irregulars ".

As shooting practice, the detective adorned the wall of his Baker Street lodgings with " VR " ( Victoria Regina ) in bullet pocks made by his pistol.

As seen in the surviving episode " The Frighteners ", Steed also had helpers among the population who provided information, similar to the " Baker Street Irregulars " of Sherlock Holmes.

He established the Underground Electric Railways Company of London to take control of the Metropolitan District Railway and the part built Baker Street & Waterloo Railway ; Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway ; and Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway.

The Magician's Nephew refers to these books in the opening of the novel as though their events were true, mentioning the setting of the piece as being when " Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road ".

At the time they lived in Gloucester Place Mews near Baker Street.

He died of typhoid at his home in Baker Street, London, on 27 March 1931, after returning from a visit to France.

Additionally a novel, Jon Lellenberg's Baker Street Irregular, has been announced for publication in Nov 2011.

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* The Great Mouse Detective: Basil of Baker Street, Dr. Dawson, Professor Ratigan, 17 Henchmens, and Fidget.

In his works, a character named Yoshio Kobayashi of " Shōnentanteidan " ( Junior Detective Group, similar to the Baker Street Irregulars of Sherlock Holmes ) forms a deep dependency with adult protagonist Kogoro Akechi.

Baker Street is the central London terminus for many trains, while others continue into the City to terminate at Aldgate.

The Metropolitan Railway branched out to the suburbs from Baker Street, reaching Harrow in 1880, and eventually as far as, over from the centre of London.