道尔是世界著名小说家，堪称侦探悬疑小说的鼻祖。因成功地塑造了侦探人物――歇洛克・福尔摩斯（又译夏洛克・福尔摩斯）而成为侦探小说历史上最重要的小说家之一。除此之外他还曾写过多部其他类型的小说，如科幻、悬疑、历史小说、爱情小说、戏剧、诗歌等。那么，柯南道尔的英文介绍是怎么写的呢？
[图片0] about Doyle 关于道尔 Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction. Arthur Conan Doyle was born at Picardy Place, Edinburgh, the son of Charles Altamont Doyle, a civil servant in the Edinburgh Office of Works, and Mary (Foley) Doyle. Both of Doyle’s parents were Roman Catholics. To increase his income, Charles Altamont painted, made book illustrations, and also worked as a sketch artist on criminal trials. Not long after arriving Edinburgh he began to drink and suffered at the same time from epilepsy, he was eventually institutionalized. Richard Doyle (1824–1883), the uncle of . Doyle and the son of the caricaturist John Doyle, was also an illustrator. He worked for Punch and illustrated chiefly fairy stories, including Ruskin’s The King of the Golden River, W. Allingham’s In Fairyland and some of Dickens’ Christmas qualified as doctor in 1885. After graduation Doyle practiced medicine as an eye specialist at Southsea near Porsmouth in Hampshire until 1891 when he became a full time writer. His first story, an illustrated tale of a man and a tiger, Doyle had produced at the age of six. Doyle’s first novel about Holmes, A Study in Scarlet, was published in 1887 in Beeton’s Christmas Annual. The story was written in three weeks in 1886. It introduced the detective and his Sancho Panza and Boswell, Dr. Watson, the narrator. Their major opponent, the evil genius Dr. Moriarty, became a kind of doppelgänger of the detective. Also the intrigues of the beautiful opera singer Irene Adler caused much trouble to Holmes. Conan Doyle’s other publications include plays, verse, memoirs, short stories, and several historical novels and supernatural and speculative fiction. His stories of Professor George Edward Challenger in The Lost World (1912) and other adventures blended science fact with fantastic romance, and were very popular. The model for the professor was William Rutherford, Doyle’s teacher from Edinburgh. Doyle’s practice, and other experiences, expeditions as ship’s surgeon to the Arctic and West Coast of Africa, service in the Boer War, defenses of George Edalji and Oscar Slater, two men wrongly imprisoned, provided much material for his writings. 柯南・道尔一共写了60个关于福尔摩斯的故事，56个短篇和4个中篇小说。这些故事在40年间陆陆续续在《海滨杂志》上发表，这是当时的习惯做法（查尔斯・狄更斯也是用类似的形式发表小说）。故事主要发生在 1878年 到1907年间，最晚的一个故事是以 1914年为背景。这些故事中两个是以福尔摩斯第一口吻写成，还有2个以第三人称写成，其余都是华生的叙述。 阿瑟・柯南・道尔的侦探小说《福尔摩斯探案全集》，包括《冒险史》系列、《新探案》系列、《回忆录》系列、《归来记》系列、《血字的研究》、《恐怖谷》、《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》、《四签名》。