Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional sleuth Sherlock Holmes was first introduced to readers in 1887 in The Strand magazine's serialisation of his first adventure A Study in Scarlet . Well over a hundred years later and Holmes is still going strong, having become comfortably the most famous fictional detective of all time. Even his death, in The Final Problem in 1893, proved to be only a minor setback to his career. Martin Freeman as Watson and Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes in the BBC's "Sherlock"