horror novels, love stories, suspenseful books, and detective stories. The

detective story's evolution has been a long and eventful process. The man

responsible for the biggest leap in the detective story was Arthur Conan

Doyle. He gave the world Sherlock Holmes, who could be considered the

greatest investigator in detective story history. Holmes was unique in

detective story history. "... The reader's interest is captivated not only by

the detective's "unique methods," but to perhaps to even a greater degree

by "the singular personality of this remarkable man" (Sayers 10). Doyle

also gave the world Dr. Watson, Holmes' sidekick. Other authors could

have written about this pair, but none could match Doyle. "Doyle was a

master storyteller" (Snow, 8). Without Doyle the detective story would

never have been what it is now. Cresterton states, "With Conan Doyle, the

detective story at last came to full fruition" (Cresterton, 170). This

statement is true. All detective stories after Doyle's had some of the

aspects of his stories. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle shaped the way detective

stories were written in the twentieth century by using a th

Watson. In the very beginning of "A Scandal in Bohemia" Holmes deduces,

Watson where he was looking, Holmes was dropping a hint to Watson to see

pictures (Doyle 11-25). This is one of the more unusual setups that Doyle

stories) do not treat of crime in the legal sense at all, but with human

Snow, C. P. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. N.p.: Jonathan

detective story writers of the time.

Novel. N. p.: Philosophical Library Inc. ,1958. 167-91.

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