A Study in Scarlet
Subtitle: A Detective Story
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Ward, Locke, Bowden & Co.
Published: 1892
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 244
Copyright date: 1892
Description: <p style="color:rgb(61,78,83);font-family:'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.9px;"><em><strong>A Study in Scarlet</strong></em> is an 1887 detective novel by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1886, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become among the most famous characters in literature. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, an amateur 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." (A "study" is a preliminary drawing, sketch or painting done in preparation for a finished piece.)</p><p style="color:rgb(61,78,83);font-family:'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.9px;">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,<em>Beeton's Christmas Annual</em> for 1887, are known to exist now and they have considerable value. Although Conan Doyle wrote 56 short stories featuring Holmes,<em>A Study in Scarlet</em> is one of only four full-length novels in the original canon. The novel was followed by <em>The Sign of the Four</em>, published in 1890. <em>A Study in Scarlet</em>was the first work of detective fiction to incorporate the magnifying glass as an investigative tool.</p><p style="color:rgb(61,78,83);font-family:'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.9px;">Summary from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Study_in_Scarlet" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:inherit;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(105,148,163);" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a>. Archived by Unglue.it</p>