With the words” Elementary, my dear Watson…”, the most famous detective of all times, Sherlock Holmes, starts to explain something to his friend., Dr.Watson. That
phrase has now entered the English language.
Sherlock Holmes first appeared in 1882 He became famous in “The Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes”. After that came the whole series of books about him.Many thousands
of books about Sherlock Holmes are still sold every year.
Who invented Sherlock Holmes? Arthur Conan Doyle was his inventor. He was a
doctor. In 1882 he moved from Scotland to England to set up a practice. One of the
doctors he worked with, Dr. Joseph Bell, was the model for Sherlock Holmes’s friend,
Dr.Watson. Conan Doyle’s medical knowledge was a great help to him in his detective
stories.
Conan Doyle started the fashion of the detective story, which goes on.
And what sort of man is Sherlock Holmes? We learn a lot about him from the
stories in which he appears. He is a quiet man, who only speaks when he has something
to say. He smokes a pipe (he has a collection of them). He plays the violin. He carries a
large magnifying glass. He lives at 221B Baker Street in London.
If you go to London, you will not be able to find 221B Baker Street. But instead,
you can go to a pub called the “Sherlock Holmes”. In that pub there is a room exactly like
Sherlock Holmes’s room at 221B Baker Street as described in Conan Doyle’s stories.
3 Расставь предложения по порядку.
1 Conan Doyle started the fashion of the detective story.
2 Sherlock Holmes lives in Baker Street in London.
3 Sherlock Holmes first appeared in 1882
4 In London there is a pub called the “ Sherlock Holmes”.
5 Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the stories about Sherlock Holmes. He was a doctor.
6 Sherlock Holmes was a quiet man, he smokes a pipe and plays the violin.

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