My favourite book

My Favourite Book.

By Lezhneva Tatiana

      I like reading books a lot. My favourite genre of book is detective stories, and I think, that this genre of books is really very popular. My favourite author is Conon Doyle.

     Arthur Conan Doyle was a great writer. He was born in Scotland into a family of Irish origin. He was a doctor. In 1882 he moved from Scotland to England to set up a practice. His medical knowledge was a great help to him in his detective stories.

     Conan Doyle was one of the first to start the fashion of the detective story. Today the fashion continues with the stories of other writers.

     Conan Doyle created his famous character, Sherlock Holmes, in 1885. Six years later, when Conan Doyle wrote several stories about this detective, the name of Sherlock Holmes became a name that everybody knew. Holmes first appeared in a book called "Study in Scarlet". "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" made him famous all over the world.

     One of the most interesting stories of the book is “Тне Hound of the Baskervilles”.     London at the end of the 19th century. Sherlock Holmes, the world's most famous detective, and his reliable friend, Doctor Watson, are faced with the creepy legend of a monster: a dog that kills the members of the Baskerville family. The family legend seems just like a story until Sir Charles Baskerville dies a strange death. The last Baskerville in the family, Sir Henry Baskerville, comes to England. He is American and he doesn't believe in old stories, but his life is in danger.

     Have you ever read this book? If you haven’t, I recommend you to do it. This book is worth reading.

     Conan Doyle was a famous writer. He became popular because of his love for people. He died in 1930.