Arthur conan doyle, an outstanding British detective novelist and playwright, is known as "the father of English detective novels". 1859 was born in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, a city in northern England. 1876 to 188 1 year, studied medicine at Edinburgh university, and then practiced medicine for more than ten years. At the same time, I became interested in writing detective stories. 1886, his first full-length detective novel, A Study of Blood Characters, was completed and finally published after several rejections. Soon after, Signs of Four was published, which was very popular with readers. The image of Sherlock Holmes in Conan Doyle's novels is accepted by readers. Faced with the success of his literary creation, Conan Doyle decided to give up medicine and become a writer, and successively wrote and published a series of short stories, which were compiled into Adventure History. 1894, Conan Doyle wanted to stop writing detective stories and let Sherlock Holmes die in the last case. However, readers are very indignant and protest. So Conan Doyle had to let Holmes survive in the book "The Empty House". He later wrote The Hound of the Baskerville, The Return and uncanny valley. 1930, The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes was compiled and published. In the same year, arthur conan doyle died.