Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is famous because he [write] the Sherlock Holmes stories. He born in Scotland in 1859. He [go] to Edinburgh University and [study] medicine. He [work] as a doctor for several years, but when he thirty-two, he [become] a full-time writer.

He [write] romances and adventure stories, but it the detective stories which [make] him famous. He [write] the first story in 1887, while he still a doctor, and in the next twenty years he [write] fifty more.

Sherlock Holmes [live] in Baker Street with his friend and assistant, Doctor Watson. Their enemy in many stories is a man [call] Moriarty.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [die] in 1930 aged seventy-one.