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The new TV show Elementary has Sherlock Holmes living in 2013 New York City got me thinking. If Holmes was a real person, what does this mean for the mystery fiction?

I think that Arthur Conan Doyle would have created stories around the real life Dr. Joseph Bell, who was the inspiration for Holmes, with Doyle himself in the role of Dr. Watson.

Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce would have played the pair in a series of movies in the 1930s and 40s.

Robert Downey Jr. would have played Bell in the pair of recent movies.
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