A Study in Scarlet
By: Arthur Conan Doyle ; edited with an introduction by Owen Dudley Edwards.
Contributors: Edwards, Owen Dudley.
Edition: 1st printing
Series: The World's Classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780192823809
Copyright date: 1993
Subjects: Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.; Private investigators -- England -- Fiction.; England -- Fiction.
Description: The very first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet was also the first of Conan Doyle's books to be published. His two creations, Holmes, the master of science of detection, and Watson, the great detective's faithful companion, are immediately in fine form. The mastery itself, its solution plucked unerringly by Holmes from the heart of Victorian London, proves to be the inevitable consequence of a tragedy of the American West. The story is harrowing in its alternating hope and despair, although Holmes himself was later to complain that the book 'produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid'.
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Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xl-xlv).
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