The Story Behind Sherlock Holmes Every year，thousands of people visit one of the world's most famous addresses：221 B Baker Street，London.It is famous（1）

for

for

being the place where the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes lived in the well-known stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
    A lot of people are so taken with the stories（2）

that

that

they forget Sherlock Holmes wasn't a real person and therefore didn't ever actually live at the address.In fact，there was no house there when Conan Doyle wrote the stories.So，（3）

since/if

since/if

Sherlock Holmes was a made-up character，why do so many people think of him like a real person？
    It is often said that the character Sherlock Holmes was based on a real person named Benjamin Bell，a forensic surgeon （法醫(yī)） for（4）

whom

whom

Conan Doyle worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal infirmary.
    Sherlock Holmes' problem-solving ability and powers of observation are based on the surgeon.Bell was even called on by the police （5）

to join

to join

（join） several investigation，just as Sherlock Holmes did.
    Conan Doyle found the inspiration for the name of his famous detective elsewhere，though.He was an expert cricket player and combined the names of two other well-known players，Shacklock and Sherwin，to make the name "Sherlock".
    Besides， （6）

what

what

makes the character seem like a real person is his distinctive habits.He rarely ate breakfast and had three pipes which he enjoyed smoking. （7）

although/though/while

although/though/while

his famous methods for solving mysteries started in fiction，many of them became part of modern-day policing.
    Although the character is made-up，most of the locations are real.One of Conan Doyle's strengths as an author is describing a London that seems so real to the readers.Most of the famous locations in the books are in London and Sherlock Homes fans love to visit the locations in the books and those （8）

used

used

（use） later in the movies.