British novelist Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) has become one of the most important writers in the history of detective novels because he created a successful detective character Sherlock Holmes. In his life, he wrote 56 short detective stories and 4 novellas, all of which featured Sherlock Holmes. In addition, he also wrote many other types of novels, such as science fiction, historical novels, love novels, plays, poems and so on.