A Study In Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes)

Plot

Product Description A Study in Scarlet is the very first Sherlock Holmes mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Two American travelers have been killed--one with poison, the other with a knife through the heart--and the only clues at the scene are a woman's wedding ring and the German word for ''vengeance'' written in blood. The military surgeon Dr. John Watson is brought in to investigate, along with his clever, arrogant new roommate, Sherlock Holmes. Thus begins one of the most famous crime-solving partnerships of all time in this debut of one of literature's most remarkable detectives. Doyle borrowed his major elements--the detective of superhuman intellect; cases as fantastical as they are criminal; the final, dramatic resolution--from the works of Edgar Allan Poe, adding his own distinctive touches: a strong feeling for the atmosphere of late-Victorian London, an interest in the methods of science, and a chivalric concern for justice and the oppressed. Review ''Valuable to Sherlockians as the beginning of an ageless saga, this novel is also an interesting mystery . . . Sure to be a hit with mystery readers.'' --Library Journal''[Holmes] is probably the only literary creation since the creations of Dickens which has really passed into the life and language of the people.'' --G. K. Chesterton About the Author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Edinburgh and studied medicine. He began writing while he waited for his practice to grow and, with 1887's A Study in Scarlet, created one of the most famous literary characters of all time. He was a volunteer physician in the Boer War and wrote a book on spiritualism.