A Study in Scarlet
By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; with an introd. by Hugh Greene.
Edition: 1st ed. in the U.S. of America.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1976
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y.
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9780385122832
Copyright date: 1974
Subjects: Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Private investigators -- England -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Description: In a long story whose title was changed by its author from A Tangled Skein to A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes was born. It appeared first in Beeton's Christmas Annual of 1887 and received little attention from either critics or the public. Yet it laid the foundation of the greatest literary cult of this century, is now a world classic and in first edition is extremely valuable.

An American named Enoch J. Drebber has been murdered, and no clue exists save the word Rache scrawled in blood on the wall. No clue, that is, to Inspector Tobias Gregson of Scotland Yard. Holmes, aided by his foil and companion Dr John H. Watson, deduces a little more and is less surprised than the police when the dead man's private secretary is murdered — with Rache again written in blcx»d nearby — after the suspect has been placed under lock and key.