Sherlock Holmes Statue, Edinburgh (created by Gerald Ogilvie Laing, 1989), a tribute to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle). (http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/208602).
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (22 May 1859, Edinburgh – 7 July 1930, Windlesham) (image from http://www.lostworldread.com/images/arthur_conan_doyle/conan_doyle_windlesham.jpg). Short biography in http://www.lostworldread.com/arthur_conan_doyle.htm or in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle.
Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print, December 1887, “A Study in Scarlet" published by Ward Lock at Beeton’s Christmas Annual (http://chrisroutledge.co.uk/writing/a-study-in-scarlet/) . Read it at Literature.org (http://www.literature.org/authors/doyle-arthur-conan/study-in-scarlet/index.html )
A Study in Scarlet (1933), directed by Edwin L. Marin (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024625/) . You can see this movie (full version) at Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/details/A_Study_In_Scarlet)
"What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence (…). The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done." A Study in Scarlet, 1887
