A Study in Scarlet

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in literature. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, a consulting detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": "There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."
The story, and its main characters, attracted little public interest when it first appeared. Only 11 complete copies of the magazine in which the story first appeared, Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887, are known to exist now and they have considerable value. Although Conan Doyle wrote 56 short stories featuring Holmes, A Study in Scarlet is one of only four full-length novels in the original canon. (Excerpted from A Study in Scarlet on Wikipedia.)
Books in the series:
  1. A Study in Scarlet
  2. The Sign of the Four
  3. The adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  4. The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes
  5. The Hound of the Baskervilles
  6. The Return Of Sherlock Holmes
  7. The Valley of Fear. 

person AuthorSir Arthur Conan Doyle
language CountryUnited Kingdom
api GenreDetective and mystery, Crime
copyright CopyrightPublic domain in the United States.
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