C Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Simple.
17. Jules Verne ____ (write) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
18. Sherlock Holmes ____ (smoke) a pipe.
19. Miss Marple ____ (catch) many criminals.
20. ___ Hercule Poirot ____ (live) in Belgium?
21. How ___ Captain Nemo ___ (travel)?
22. ____ Dr. Watson ___ (help) Sherlock Holmes?
23. Agatha Christie ____ (create) the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot.
24. Professor Otto Lidenbrock and his nephew Axel ___ (find) a mysterious message.
25. Arthur Conan Doyle ___ (be) a famous English writer.
26. Dr. Frankenstein ___ (meet) Captain Walton on the ice.