The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is an English writer, a doctor, author of adventure, historical, fantastic and journalistic works.
Books about the brilliant London detective Sherlock Holmes and his partner Dr. Watson brought Conan Doyle world fame and became the classic of the detective genre. In total, the hero appears in 57 stories and 4 stories. The first work about Sherlock was written in 1887 - this is the story "An study in crimson tones". The last collection-"Archive Sherlock Holmes" was published in 1927
English writer Gilbert Chesterton called Holmes" The only literary character since the time of Dickens, who firmly entered the life and language of the people, becoming something like Johnna Bull or Santa- Klaus".
The book includes the first author"s collection of stories about Holmes" Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (1892)