Arthur CONAN DOYLE
With the words "Elementary, my dear Watson ", the most famous
detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes, starts to explain a crime to his
friend, Dr. Watson. That phrase has now entered the English language.
Sherlock Holmes first appeared in a book called 'Study in Scarlet'. He
became famous in «The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes», first
published in the 'Strand Magazine'. After that came a whole series of books about him: 'The Memoirs of Sherlock
Holmes', 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes', 'The Hound of the Baskervilles', and
many others. Many thousands of the Sherlock Holmes books are still sold every
year.
Who invented Sherlock Holmes? Arthur Conan Doyle was his inventor.
Arthur Conan Doyle was born in
Conan Doyle started the fashion of the detective story.
And
what sort of man is Sherlock Holmes? We learn a lot about him from the stories
in which he appears. He has a thin face and intelligent eyes. He speaks when he
has something to say. He smokes a pipe (he has a collection of. them). He plays
the violin. He lives at 221 'B'
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Sir Sr Conan Doyle,
the novelist, first created his famous character, Sherlock Holmes in 1885. Six
years later, when he wrote another group of stories abotrt the detective,
Sherlock Holmes was a name that everybody knew.
When
Conan Doyle began to get tired of writing detective stories, he decided
to 'kill' Holmes. He wrote a story in which Holmes meets his great enemy,
Professor Moriarty, in
Conan Doyle was a famous writer. He became popular
because of his love for people