There in the reading hall of world literature is organized the book exhibition dedicated to the 125-th year from the publication of the collection of the stories of A.K.Doyle named “The adventures of Sherlock Holmes”.

   Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is the well-known English writer acknowledged in the whole world. He was born in the family of artistes. After graduating from the medical faculty of the Edinburgh university in 1881, for some time he was practicing in Southsea. After that he defended the dissertation, became a doctor of medicine but when he reached the age of 30 he left the medical profession to become engaged in literary creative activity. He travelled a lot. He was a doctor in a whaler in the Arctic, he also was a field surgeon during the English-Boor war (1899-1902).
   Arthur Conan Doyle is the author of multiple adventure, historical, publicist, fantastic and humoristic works.
The creator of classical personages of detective, scientific-fantastical and historical-adventure literature: the genius detective Sherlock Holmes, the eccentric professor Challenger, the brave officer on horseback Zherard.  The first short novel in which there appear his main personages Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson saw the light in 1887. Altogether the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson occupy four short novels and five collections of stories.
“The sign of the four” (1890), “The hound of the Baskervilles” (1902) and “The valley of fears” (1915). The multiple stories about the famous detective, published in different magazines were gathered in the collection “The adventures of Sherlock Holmes” (1891), “The notes of Sherlock Holmes” (1893), “The return of Sherlock Holmes” (1905), “The archives of Sherlock Holmes” (1927), “The scandal in Bohemia” – the first story from the series of “The adventures of Sherlock Holmes” was published in the magazine “Strand” in 1891. The prototype of the main hero was Joseph Bell, professor of the Edinburgh university who had the striking ability through the minutest details to predict the character and the past of any person. For two years Conan Doyle created a story after story but in the end he became tired of his own personage. But his attempt to finish with Holmes during the fight with professor Moriarty was unsuccessful because the reading public had come to love the hero and he had to be “resuscitated”. The Holmes epopee was crowned by the novel “The hound of the Baskervilles” (1902) which is deemed to belong to the classics of detective genre.
   Sherlock Holmes is one of the most popular fictional literary heroes in detective genre but every fifth Britain dweller thinks that he really existed. The unusual popularity of Sherlock Holmes and his true friend and biographer doctor Watson gradually became a branch of new mythology, the centre of which up to now remains the flat in London. There to its fictional address of “Baker-street, 221b” uninterruptedly came the flow of letters and the authorities of London had to break the order of numeration of the houses in the street by replacing the house where there is now the museum of Sherlock Holmes.

   There at the book exhibition are presented the works of A.K.Doyle in the Kazakh, English and Russian languages.