A Study in Scarlet
Contributors: Owen Dudley Edwards (Editor)
Edition: printing (1)
Series: Oxford Sherlock Holmes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780192123138
Copyright date: 1993
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 the science of detection, and Watson, the great detective's faithful compan- ion, are immediately in fine form, The mystery itself, its solution plucked un- erringly by Holmes from the heart of Victorian London, proves to be the in- evitable consequence of a tragedy of the American West. The story is har- rowing in its alternating hope and des- pair, 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'.