Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Conan Doyle akataura kakawanda kuti Holmes akafuridzirwa nehupenyu chaihwo hwaJoseph Bell, chiremba paRoyal Infirmary yeEdinburgh, uyo Conan Doyle akasangana naye muna 1877 uye akanga ashanda semushandi. Kufanana naHolmes, Bell aizivikanwa nokuwana mhedziso dzakakura kubva muzvinhu zviduku zvaaicherechedza. Zvisinei, akazonyorera Conan Doyle kuti: "Iwe pachako ndiwe Sherlock Holmes uye unonyatsozviziva". Sir Henry Littlejohn, sachigaro weMedical Jurisprudence paUniversity of Edinburgh Medical School, anonziwo ndiye akafuridzira Holmes. Littlejohn, uyo akanga ariwo Chiremba wemapurisa uye Chiremba weHutano muEdinburgh, akapa Conan Doyle nehukama pakati pekuongororwa kwechiremba uye kuonekwa kwemhosva. Zvimwe zvinokurudzirwa zvakataurwa, zvakadai saMaximilien Heller, nemunyori wechiFrench Henry Cauvain. Mune iri bhuku ra1871 (makore gumi nematanhatu Sherlock Holmes asati atanga kuoneka), Henry Cauvain anofungidzira mutikitivha akaora mwoyo, asingadi vanhu, anosvuta opium, anoshanda muParis. Hazvizivikanwi kana Conan Doyle akaverenga bhuku racho, asi aiziva chiFrench zvakanaka. Michael Harrison akataura kuti mumwe muGermany anozviti "mutikitivha anopa mazano" anonzi Walter Scherer angave aiva muenzaniso waHolmes.  Mubvunzo: Chii chakafanana pakati paSis Holmes naBell?
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