It mainly tells the story of sherlock holmes, a consulting detective who lived in London, England in the late 19th century, and his roommate and assistant, Dr. John Watson, working together to solve various difficult cases that the official detectives of Scotland Yard could not handle. A * * * contains four long stories (A Study of Red Characters, sign of four, The Hound of the Baskerville, uncanny valley) and 56 short stories.
Most stories are told from the perspective of Dr. John H. Watson, a friend and biographer of Sherlock Holmes. Only two of them are narrated by Holmes himself and two are written by the third person.
The background of the story is fully combined with the political and economic situation in Britain at that time, and Conan Doyle's writing style and narrative angle are becoming more and more sophisticated, and many people even think that it really exists. In this novel, in addition to those thrilling and sensational detective cases, it is more about expressing jealousy, suspicion and hatred between people.
The husband murdered his wife, the uncle poisoned his nephew for property, and the two brothers killed his sister, etc. These crimes show the ugliness of human nature. In addition, Holmes and Watson sometimes break the law for justice.
The protagonist of the story, Sherlock Holmes, though unpredictable in character, likes to be praised by others and dislikes women. He was once rated by Watson as "as ruthless as a machine in the process of investigation" in sign of four.
But in The Dying Detective, he showed his deep friendship and trust to Watson. When Watson tried to touch the ivory box with the poisonous needle, he shouted wildly to stop it, and then he returned to his normal state. Such a little emotional expression made his personality more complicated.
moriarty, the biggest villain in the book, controls all the evils in London, but on the surface he looks like a respectable professor, which can be said to be Conan Doyle's accusation against the society and the government at that time.
By describing the tragic experience of Douglas in uncanny valley, he made readers deeply sympathize with their experiences, and made readers angry with the evil deeds of moriarty and his gang. More importantly, he made all kinds of injustices in real life emerge in people's hearts, causing * * *. Extended information
Creation background:
After seeing this novel, the editor of lippincott Magazine invited Conan Doyle to continue writing a detective story about Sherlock Holmes. Sign of four, published in 189, objectively reflected the colonial plunder of India and achieved great success. Gradually, Sherlock Holmes immediately became a famous figure in English literature.
Conan Doyle wrote six short stories in succession: The Bohemian Scandal, The Red Hair Society, The Identity Case, The Secret Case of Bos Combi Valley, The Five Oranges and The Man with Crooked Lips, which aroused great interest and had a profound impact. Shore Magazine asked Conan Doyle to write more similar stories for them. So Conan Doyle began to write the second batch of stories.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 ~ 193):
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, he became one of the most important writers in the history of detective novels because he created a successful detective character-sherlock holmes. Can be called the originator of detective mystery novel. His representative works include adventures of sherlock holmes (including A Study of Blood Characters, sign of four, The Hound of the Baskerville, etc.).
Conan Doyle's contribution to detective stories is enormous. The story structure, reasoning techniques and ingenious ideas of his novels set a model for novels of this kind. He is a well-deserved literary master, and he pushed detective stories into a brand-new era. The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes can be described as an immortal classic that opened up the "golden age" of detective novels, which is popular all over the world and is the most admired detective novel in history.
In addition, he has written many other types of novels, such as The Lost World. His works involve science fiction, suspense, historical novels, love novels, plays, poems and so on.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-adventures of sherlock holmes.