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A Study in Scarlet

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1353
Condition:
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Format:
Trade Paperback, 200 pages
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, 2008
Edition:
Oxford University Press Reissue, Fourth Printing
The very first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, was also the first of Conan Doyle's books to be published. In this fascinating and exciting tale, the two towering creations of detective fiction—Holmes, the master of the science of detection, and Watson, his faithful companion—make their auspicious debut. The two detectives are immediately in fine form as Holmes plucks the solution to the mystery from the heart of Victorian London.  The story is harrowing in its alernating hope and despair, although Holmes himself was later to complain that the book "produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopment into the fifth proposition of Euclid."

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The very first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, was also the first of Conan Doyle's books to be published. In this fascinating and exciting tale, the two towering creations of detective fiction—Holmes, the master of the science of detection, and Watson, his faithful companion—make their
auspicious debut. The two detectives are immediately in fine form as Holmes plucks the solution to the mystery from the heart of Victorian London.  The story is harrowing in its alernating hope and despair, although Holmes himself was later to complain that the book "produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopment into the fifth proposition of Euclid."

About the Author

Owen Dudley Edwards is Reader in History at thr University of Edinburgh and author of The Quest for Sherlock Holmes: A Biographical Study of Arthur Conan Doyle. Richard Lancelyn Green is the co-author of the standard Soho Bibliography of Conan Doyle (Oxford, 1983) and the author of The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes. Christopher Roden is the editor of the Journal of the Conan Doyle Society, as well as being the Society's secretary. Professor Wallace Robson is a former Emeritus David Masson Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.