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Book report of Famous Cases of Sherlock Holmes The book is composed of four stories-The Solitary Cyclist, the Beryl Coronet, the Engineer’s thumb, The Red-headed League. The main character named Sherlock Holmes, he is a detective. He is a cautious man, and has a strong observation. In all cases, we can find that most of them were figured out by his observation. He is also good at inferring, even through a petty thing, he can discover something immense. He solved a lot of difficult cases for others through his strict reasoning. After so a lot of difficult cases were settled by him, he is famous in England, so, if someone has troubles that polices can’t solve, they will turn to him. Accompanied him is a doctor called Watson who is acted as a secretary of Holmes. He is not a very intelligent man, but he is willing to listen to Holmes’s word, so, he helped Holmes a lot. The novel is designed as Mr. Watson is the first person who tells us these stories. So it makes us thought that the book is a novel composed of many real stories. That shows that the intelligence of the author of this book-Conan Doyle-the father of Holmes. We gotta say that Conan Doyle is really a master that he can make readers think these cases really occur. Arthur Conan Doyle, the son of Charles Doyle and Mary Foley, was born in Edinburgh on 22nd May 1859.his father was an alcoholic and the family was always short of money. At school, Arthur developed a strong interest in the books written by Sir Walter Scott and Edgar Allan Poe. He studied at Edinburgh University and helped to fund his course by working as a surgeon on Hope, a 400 ton whaler on a seven month voyage to the Arctic. The following year he worked on Mayumba, a passenger ship bound for West Africa. On this voyage Conan Doyle nearly died of typhoid. On his return, Conan Doyle set up as a doctor in Southsea, a suburb of Portsmouth. With very few patients, Conan Doyle attempted to make money by writing detective stories. His main c