21 January 2011 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle killed off Sherlock Holmes when writing the stories took up too much of his time. Now, 80 years after the author's death, Britain's most famous detective is ...

William Powell and John Barrymore in the Silent Film Sherlock Holmes, 1922 John Springer Collection/CORBIS Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in 1930, but his most famous work—stories about the English ...