This final paper deals with two literary characters. The first one is a hero from the series of novels of a worldly known investigatior Sherlock Holmes. For this paper there were taken two novels about Sherlock, Study in Scarlet as the main and The Original illustrated „Strand“ Sherlock Holmes as the secondary novel. Second charachter is „croatian Sherlock Holmes“ inspector Šimek, hero of the croatian first crime novel Kneginje iz Petrinjske ulice. In this part of the paper the life and work of Marija Jurić Zagorka will be described, as well as the creation of Kneginje iz Petrinjske ulice and the way of making that novel. Besides her life, this paper talks about life of Arthur Conan Doyle. In the second part of the paper the two main charaters, which are the subject of this paper, inspector Šimek and Sherlock Holmes will be compared. Their similarities and differences will be pointed out and then on the base of that, later will be possible to make a conclusion about how many similarties Šimek has with Sherlock and if he got his title as the „croatian Sherlock“ because Sherlock was an inspiration for Kneginja iz Petrinjske ulice or was Marija Jurić Zagorka just a fan of Sherlock Holmes novel. At the end of the paper the structure, which Stanko Lasić and Pavao Pavličić talk about, will be mentioned. Pavličić explaines the conept of crime novel and the part of a hero and a villan.