A Study in Scarlet

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Overview


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "A Study in Scarlet" houses the debut appearance of the great Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson. 
It is the first of the four murder mysteries in the Sherlock Holmes series. "A Study in Scarlet" was first published in 1887 in "Beeton's Christmas Annual" and made into a book the following year. 
 "There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colorless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014644556
Publisher:	Cricket House Books, LLC
Publication date:	06/27/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	135
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

A prolific author of books, short stories, poetry, and more, the Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is best known for the creation of one of literature’s most vivid and enduring characters: Sherlock Holmes. Through detailed observation, vast knowledge, and brilliant deduction, Holmes and his trusted friend, Dr. Watson, step into the swirling fog of Victorian London to rescue the innocent, confound the guilty, and solve the most perplexing puzzles known to literature.

Date of Birth:

May 22, 1859

Date of Death:

July 7, 1930

Place of Birth:

Edinburgh, Scotland

Place of Death:

Crowborough, Sussex, England

Education:

Edinburgh University, B.M., 1881; M.D., 1885