Sherlock Holmes was fictional , but he lives on in novels and short stories . The estate of the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is fighting a court case . A California writer wants to publish a new series of Holmes stories . The Conan Doyle estate asks the U.S. Supreme Court to solve the case .
Sherlock Holmes was fictional , but he lives on in novels and short stories . The estate of the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is fighting a copyright case . A California writer wants to publish a new series of Holmes stories . The Conan Doyle estate wants the U.S. Supreme Court to solve the case .