Lin Shu, a famous translator in the Republic of China, is known as the founder of modern Chinese literary circles. His translations use ancient Chinese, and all of them adopt the form of joint translation, that is, with the cooperation of other people's oral translation, "the sound has stopped when the ears are followed by the hands." With his excellent classical literacy, skillful expression skills and fluent writing style, he has formed a unique style, which is favored by Qian Zhongshu, Lu Xun, Zhou Zuoren and others, and is rated as better than the original work. This article is a detective novel, a study of the current translation of The Word in Scarlet, which is the opening story of Sherlock Holmes' detective case.