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Was Sherlock Holmes a police detective from London?

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Sherlock Holmes was what we would call today a private detective, not a police detective, but he certainly lived in London at 221b Baker Street. He was of course a mythical figure created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as the hero of a series of detective stories.

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