num_pages: 168
description: "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." Holmes's eyes fairly glittered as he spoke, and he put his hand over his heart and bowed as if to some applauding crowd conjured up by his imagination. "Criminal cases are continually hinging upon that one point. A man is suspected of a crime months perhaps after it has been committed. His linen or clothes are examined, and brownish stains discovered upon them. Are they blood stains, or mud stains, or rust stains, or fruit stains, or what are they? That is a question which has puzzled many an expert, and why? Because there was no reliable test. Now we have the Sherlock Holmes' test, and there will no longer be any difficulty."
language: English
title: A Study in Scarlet
titlecomplete: A Study in Scarlet
characters: John Ferrier, Enoch Drebber, Dr. John Watson, Mrs. Hudson (Conan Doyle series), Joseph Stangerson, Inspector Lestrade, Tobias Gregson, Sherlock Holmes, Lucy Ferrier, Jefferson Hope
genres: Classics, Mystery, Detective, Thriller, Audiobook, Historical Fiction, 19th Century, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 426402
places: Utah, London, England
series: Sherlock Holmes
publisher: Wildside Pr