Detective fiction detective fiction. Doyle attempted to kill the character off after twenty-three stories, but by popular request, he continued to write the Sherlock Holmes series. Sherlock Holmes is not only referenced as the titular character, but has also influenced many other areas outside of detective fiction. For example, the BBC-produced TV series Sherlock gained a very large fandom after first airing in 2010, imbuing a renewed interest in the character in the general public. Because of the popularity of Holmes, Conan Doyle was often regarded as being “as well-known as Queen Victoria”. Hercule Poirot is a fictional Belgian private detective, created
Minor Sherlock Holmes characters actually a coded message that invited Sherlock to Eurus's room, allowing Sherlock to save his friend by making a genuinely emotional appeal to Eurus, giving her the love of an older brother and a form of relationship he'd denied her as a child, which convinces her to stand down. She is returned to incarceration, with Mycroft describing her as reduced to a catatonic state, although she responds in duet when Sherlock plays the violin near her cell. Mary Russell is a fictional character in a book series by Laurie R. King, focusing on the adventures of Russell and her mentor