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''Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World's First Consulting Detective'' is a 1962 novel by
William S. Baring-Gould William Stuart Baring-Gould (1913–10 Aug 1967) was a noted Sherlock Holmes scholar, best known as the author of the influential 1962 fictional biography, ''Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World's ...
. The book purports to be a
biography A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or ...
of Sherlock Holmes. It is considered to be the "definitive" biography of Sherlock Holmes. Some aspects of the book were loosely based on the life of Baring-Gould's paternal grandfather,
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. Many of the theories put forth by Baring-Gould have become accepted knowledge about Sherlock Holmes, such as the full name "William Sherlock Scott Holmes", which is used in the film ''
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television series '' Sherlock''. Other details established by Baring-Gould, such as Professor Moriarty being Holmes' childhood mathematics tutor, that Holmes was once an actor, and the continuing affair and one-night stand with
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, leading up to the birth of a son (who is implied in the book to be
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), have continued to be a part of
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and have been used in other Sherlockian pastiches. The book also offers one of the earliest versions of Sherlock Holmes meeting
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. Five years later in 1967, Baring-Gould would go on to publish ''The Annotated Sherlock Holmes'', which would also be considered definitive, at least until Leslie S. Klinger published ''
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'' in 2004–2005. Baring-Gould used many biographical details that he invented in ''Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street'' for his two annotated volumes.


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