Sherlock Holmes ist der Mann für knifflige Fälle. Gleich, ob es um kriminelle Bünde geht, um verschwundene Personen, Staatsgeheimnisse oder unerklärliche Todesfälle Sherlock löst jedes Problem. Assistiert von seinem treuen Freund Dr. Watson, sorgt er mit seiner exzellenten Beobachtungsgabe seit über hundert Jahren bei zahllosen Lesern in aller Welt für Staunen.
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.
Doyle was a prolific writer. In addition to the Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the brigantine Mary Celeste, found drifting at sea with no crew member aboard.