The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes·volume 2
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Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, England in 1859. He attended a church school as a teenager, and later received a doctorate in medicine from the University of Edinburgh, and was knighted in 1902. From the time he wrote "A Study in Scarlet" in 1886 until his death in 1930, he wrote more than 60 short stories and short stories with private detective Sherlock Holmes as the protagonist. When these novels were collected and published, they were titled "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes". In addition, he has also written many other types of novels, such as science fiction novels, historical novels, romance novels, dramas, poetry, etc. Conan Doyle wrote "A Study in Scarlet" when he was 29 years old, and it was published the following year. Two years later, he published The Sign of Four. In the three years from 1891 to 1894, Conan Doyle wrote 24 short stories, including "A Scandal in Bohemia", "The Red-Headed Society", "A Case of Identity", "The Secret of Boscombe Valley", "Five Orange Cores", "The Man with a Crooked Mouth", and "The Silver Horse", and published them together. At the end of 1894, Conan Doyle let Holmes die in "The Final Case". Under the appeal of readers, he wrote "The Hound of the Baskervilles" in 1901. In 1903, Conan Doyle wrote "The Empty House", which brought Sherlock Holmes back from the dead and became active in front of readers again. He has successively written detective stories such as "Return", "Uncanny Valley", "Last Salute", and "New Detective". Conan Doyle wrote stories about Sherlock Holmes, a total of 56 short stories and 4 novellas. These stories were published in "Seaside Magazine" one after another for 40 years. The stories mainly take place between 1878 and 1907, with the latest story set in 1914. Two of these stories are written in the first voice of Holmes, two are written in the third person, and the rest are narrated by Watson.
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