<em>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle killed off Sherlock Holmes because he felt that writing the stories made him </em><em>too busy for his other work. But now, one of Britain’s most famous detectives is being brought back to </em><em>life 80 years after the author’s death. British writer, Anthony Horowitz is writing a new novel which </em><em>should be ready in September. Sunita Nahar reports:</em><p><font size=”3″><font size=”2″>The </font></font><strong><font size=”2″><font size=”2″>character </font></font></strong><font size=”2″><font size=”2″>of Sherlock Holmes was originally created by the Scottish writer Arthur Conan Doyle,</font></font><font size=”2″><font size=”2″> who featured him in four novels and more than 50 short stories. After his death, his son Adrian wroteseveral stories featuring the famous </font></font><strong><font size=”2″><font size=”2″>Victorian detective</font></font></strong><font size=”2″><font size=”2″>, but </font></font><strong><font size=”2″><font size=”2″>critics </font></font></strong><font size=”2″><font size=”2″>say he was never that popular.</font></font><font size=”2″><font size=”2″>But it’s the first time that the Arthur Conan Doyle estate has officially asked </font></font><strong><font size=”2″><font size=”2″>an author </font></font></strong><font size=”2″><font size=”2″>to write a new</font></font><font size=”2″><font size=”2″> novel. He has been named as Anthony Horowitz and is best known his Alex Rider children’s series. Sowas he </font></font><strong><font size=”2″><font size=”2″>daunted by </font></font></strong><font size=”2″><font size=”2″>the challenge?</font></font></p><font size=”2″><font size=”2″><p class=”system-pagebreak” align=”left”>Anthony Horowitz:</p></font></font><em><p align=”left”><font size=”2″><font size=”2″>”Well obviously, it was daunting <strong><font size=”2″><font size=”2″>to a certain extent </font></font></strong><font size=”2″><font size=”2″>and you are dealing with probably the most </font></font><strong><font size=”2″><font size=”2″>iconic </font></font></strong>detective in the whole history of literature. And the one thing I didn’t want to do was <strong><font size=”2″><font size=”2″>to disappoint </font></font></strong></font></font><font size=”2″><font size=”2″>those really </font></font><strong><font size=”2″><font size=”2″>devout fans</font></font></strong><font size=”2″><font size=”2″>, the sort of Sherlock Holmes Society and people who love these books.</font></font><font size=”2″><font size=”2″>  </font></font></p><p class=”system-pagebreak” align=”left”><font size=”2″><font size=”2″>But to be honest with you, I actually found it fairly easy to write because I have loved those books since I was 16 years old, I’ve read them two or three times during the course of my lifetime – in fact, my whole life as a writer of </font></font><strong><font size=”2″><font size=”2″>crime fiction </font></font></strong><font size=”2″><font size=”2″>myself was, to a certain extent, inspired by Doyle and I find</font></font> </p><p align=”left”><font size=”3″><font size=”2″>the book not so scary as I thought it might be.”</font></font></p></em><font size=”2″><font size=”2″><p class=”system-pagebreak” align=”left”>Anthony Horowitz says he’s a devoted fan and aims to produce a first rate mystery for a modern audience</p><p class=”system-pagebreak”> </p><p style=”display: inline !important” class=”system-pagebreak” align=”left”><strong>Vocabulary and definitions</strong></p><p> </p><strong><p align=”left”><table border=”1″ width=”630″ class=”caption” align=”left”><caption class=”system-pagebreak”></caption><tbody><tr><td class=”system-pagebreak”> <strong>character</strong></td><td class=”system-pagebreak”>here, a person or a creature that has been created for a story </td></tr><tr><td class=”system-pagebreak”> <strong>Victorian detective </strong></td><td class=”system-pagebreak”> person who tried to solve crimes during the time of Queen Victoria’s reign in Britain (1837-1901)</td></tr><tr><td class=”system-pagebreak”> <strong>critics</strong></td><td class=”system-pagebreak”> people who write or talk about their opinions, sometimes in the media</td></tr><tr><td class=”system-pagebreak”> <strong>an author </strong></td><td class=”system-pagebreak”> someone who writes books or articles</td></tr><tr><td class=”system-pagebreak”> <strong>daunted by </strong></td><td class=”system-pagebreak”> worried, slightly frightened or intimidated by</td></tr><tr><td class=”system-pagebreak”> <strong>to a certain extent </strong></td><td class=”system-pagebreak”> in some ways</td></tr><tr><td class=”system-pagebreak”> <strong>iconic </strong></td><td class=”system-pagebreak”> someone or something which is representative of a time, culture or purpose</td></tr><tr><td class=”system-pagebreak”> <strong>to disappoint </strong></td><td class=”system-pagebreak”> to make others feel sad because you haven’t done something they expected you to</td></tr><tr><td class=”system-pagebreak”> <strong>devout fans</strong> </td><td class=”system-pagebreak”> people who love and support something or someone with a passion that’s almost religious</td></tr><tr><td class=”system-pagebreak”> <strong>crime fiction</strong> </td><td class=”system-pagebreak”> stories that are created by writers about illegal activities which are not true</td></tr></tbody></table></p><p> </p><p><font size=”2″><font size=”2″><strong>More on this story:</strong></font><font size=”2″ color=”#0000ff”><font size=”2″ color=”#0000ff”><font size=”2″ color=”#0000ff”><a href=”http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12221226″><strong> </strong></a><font size=”2″ color=”#0000ff”><font size=”2″ color=”#0000ff”><font size=”2″ color=”#0000ff”><a href=”http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12221226″><u>www.bbc.co.uk</u></a></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p> </p><p style=”display: inline !important” align=”left”><strong><font size=”2″><font size=”2″ color=”#0000ff”><font size=”2″ color=”#0000ff”><font size=”2″ color=”#0000ff”><a class=”system-pagebreak” href=”http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12221226″><u>www.bbc.co.uk/news</u></a></font></font></font></font></strong></p><p> </p><font size=”2″><strong><p class=”system-pagebreak” align=”left”>Read and listen to the story and the vocabulary online:</p></strong><font size=”1″ color=”#0000ff”><font size=”1″ color=”#0000ff”><p><a href=”http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2011/01/110121_witn_sherlock_holmes_page.shtml”><u>www.bbc.co.uk</u></a></p></font></font></font><p> </p></strong></font></font>