Gold-rimmed glasses

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle (British)
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: On a foggy street in London called Baker Street, there lived a justice-seeking detective. He, along with his loyal doctor friend Watson, experienced countless bizarre cases. For example, why did a university professor crawl like an animal, or how could a gem be hidden in a goose's belly? The "creators" of these cases—author Arthur Conan Doyle was born in 1857 near Edinburgh, Scotland, and after obtaining a medical degree, became a doctor. Due to the poor treatment of doctors in Britain at the time, he began writing. The Study in Scarlet was published after multiple rejections, and The Sign of Four made him famous, ultimately becoming a detective novelist. In 1894, he decided to stop writing detective novels and had Holmes die in The Final Problem. However, the readers were furious, and Conan Doyle had to bring Holmes back to life in The Empty House and write other detective novels such as The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Valley of Fear. The protagonist, Holmes, became a globally renowned figure. In 2002, the Royal Society of Chemistry in the UK even posthumously inducted the detective novel character Holmes as an honorary member, an honor previously only granted to Nobel laureates or outstanding scholars and industrialists. Conan Doyle's novels are known for their rigorous structure, intriguing and captivating plots. The literary characters he created are vividly distinct, and in his writing, he integrated pathology, psychology, and other fields into detective art, forming a unique style of detective fiction.