A Study in Scarlet
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Edition: printing (I)
Series: Red classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780141034331
Subjects: Fiction; John H. Watson (Fictitious character)
Description: When Dr John Watson takes rooms in Baker Street with amateur detective Sherlock Holmes, he has no idea that he is about to enter a shadowy world of criminality and violence. 

Accompanying Holmes to an ill-omened house in south London, Watson is startled to find a dead man whose face is contorted in a rictus of horror. There is no mark of violence on the body yet a single word is written on the wall in blood. 

Dr Watson is as baffled as the police, but Holmes’s brilliant analytical skills soon uncover a trail of murder, revenge and lost love...