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A Study in Scarlet

A Study in Scarlet

Paperback (03 Nov 1994)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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 companion, are immediately in fine form. The mystery itself, its solution plucked unerringly by Holmes from the heart of Victorian London, proves to be the inevitable consequence of a tragedy of the American West. The story is harrowing in its alternating hope and despair, although Holmes himself was later to complain that it "produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid".

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Book information

ISBN: 9780192823809
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 823.912
DEWEY edition: 20
Number of pages: 200
Weight: 140g
Height: 180mm
Width: 110mm
Spine width: 12mm