A Study in Scarlet

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

Original en 43187 words First published 1887 United Kingdom

The novel that introduced Sherlock Holmes to the world in 1887. Wounded army doctor John Watson returns to London and takes rooms at 221B Baker Street with a mysterious fellow lodger who announces he is a 'consulting detective' — the only one in the world. Their first case together: a body found in an empty house in Brixton, the word RACHE scrawled in blood on the wall, and a wedding ring in the pocket of a man no one can identify. Half detective story, half pioneer epic of Utah, it is where Holmes, Watson, and the entire modern mystery genre begin.

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A Study in Scarlet

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