Sherlock Holmes

"The Sherlock Holmes" is a detective work by the outstanding British detective novelist and playwright Conan Doyle. The original text includes 4 novels and 56 short stories. The novel not only creates the image of Sherlock Holmes as a flesh-and-blood private detective, but also attracts readers with its bizarre and tortuous plots and meticulous and rigorous reasoning, thereby creating a precedent for detective mystery novels. The literary achievements of the novel can be roughly summarized in the following four aspects: First, "Sherlock Holmes" is highly social. In the series of novels, Conan Doyle was good at combining social crime with social reality, reflecting the problems existing in British society from many aspects. This not only highlights the social nature of the work, but also fully demonstrates Conan Doyle's progressive outlook on life and the social significance of his works. Secondly, the novel creates a series of distinctive literary images and adds many vivid artistic models to the treasure house of world literature. Thirdly, "The Sherlock Holmes" created the rigorous structure of detective novels. Conan Doyle's 60 detective novels are all based on logical reasoning. He is good at foreshadowing in conception and layout, making the whole story more twists and turns, bizarre and fascinating. Finally, "The Sherlock Holmes" has formed a unique style of detective novels in terms of plot and language.