Sherlock Holmes was Real!

A week ago, I finished The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, so I've now read every original Sherlock Holmes story there is. So, of course, now I start reading them again.:) The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes was probably better than His Last Bow, although I didn't like the third-person stories as much as the first-person ones. They were nice, but not quite as charming, I guess partly because they didn't show people's emotions and feelings and thoughts and expressions and all of that stuff as well as when it's being told as if by someone who was there. I loved the ones written from Holmes's point of view, though! I wouldn't rank them above Watson's, but maybe equal to them, in their own way. Put simply, I wouldn't want them all or mostly to be written as if by Holmes, but I do wish Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had written more like that! They were (especially the first one - The Blanched Soldier) fairly educational in Holmes's style of investigation, and I almost wish they had been more so. I've always wanted a thorough lesson in it, but maybe I'm the only one, because I've always dreamed I was a detective.;) That story in particular was also very charming, because Holmes says things like, '... I am compelled to admit that, having taken my pen in my hand, I do begin to realize that the matter must be presented in such a way as may interest the reader.' and at the end, 'And it is here that I miss my Watson. By cunning questions and ejaculations of wonder he could elevate my simple art, which is but systematized common sense, into a prodigy.' I love those quotes! They just explain Holmes's thoughts.:) I mean, he obviously never thought about 'interesting the reader' before, which is kind of funny, and very charming (to me), and I love the way he's usually so cold about his work, and tells Watson he makes the stories too romantic (or something like that), but now he gets disappointed Watson isn't there to make him sound amazing! Isn't that a lovely, charmingly absent-minded-professor, genius-and-great-artist personality?
I've also found out that, in a way, Sherlock Holmes was real.:) In the biographical page at the front of  The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, it said that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a bit of a detective himself, and actually proved the innocence of a man called Oscar Slater, who had been accused of a crime (the book didn't say what). I think that the most charming and lovely books are almost always based on real life people or (at least) experiences, so before reading that I thought, 'I wonder if Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was really a lot like Sherlock Holmes?' When I found out he was a doctor, I thought maybe he was like Watson, and knew someone like Holmes. Then when I read that biographical page, I found out he really was a sort of Holmes!:) The page also said that Dr. Watson was actually one of his friends! So they are real, in their own way! And, those stories really were written by Holmes.;)