A Study in Scarlet
By Arthur Conan DoyleThe very first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet was also the first of Conan Doyle's books to be published. His two creations, Holmes, the master of the science of detection and Watson, the great detective's faithful companion, are immediately in fine form. The mystery itself, its solution plucked unerringly by Holmes from the heart of Victorian London, proves to be the inevitable consequence of a tragedy of the American West. The story is harrowing
in its alternating hope and despair, although Holmes himself was later to complain that the book `produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid'.
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- Hardcover
- 256 pages
- English
- 0199554773
- 9780199554775
About Arthur Conan Doyle
sir arthur ignatius conan doyle was born the third of ten siblings on 22 may 1859 in edinburgh, scotland. his father, charles altamont doyle, a talented il Read More about Arthur Conan Doyle
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