A Study in Scarlet
By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Edition: large print edition
Series: G.K. Hall large print perennial bestseller series
Publisher: G.K. Hall
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Thorndike, ME
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780783893501
Subjects: Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Private investigators -- England -- Fiction; Large type books; England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Dr. Watson, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said Stamford, introducing us.

"How are you?" he said cordially, gripping my hand with a strength for which I should hardly have given him credit. "You have been in Afghani- Stan, I perceive."

"How on earth did you know that?" I asked in astonishment.

And so begins the famous partnership between the detective and his faithful chronicler. They agree to share rooms in Baker Street, but it is some time before Dr. John Watson comes to appreciate the employment or even the behavior of Sherlock Holmes. But when Watson is drawn into the inves- tigations following the discovery of a body in a bloodstained room in Brixton — a case that baffled the police but was solved by Holmes in three days — then he can see Holmes' skills in unraveling and exposing the scarlet thread of murder ...
Notes: "A large print mystery"--P. [4] of cover.