A Study in Scarlet

by Arthur Conan Doyle

The novel that lit the fuse. Arthur Conan Doyle introduces Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, a bloodstained London room, and a mystery whose roots run all the way to the American West.

At a glance A wounded army doctor comes home from Afghanistan, takes rooms with a strange, brilliant… So begins one of literature's great partnerships. What it's about Dr John Watson, invalided out of the army, needs cheap lodgings and… When a man is discovered dead in an empty house with no wound and a single word scrawled…

Dr John Watson, invalided out of the army, needs cheap lodgings and finds himself sharing Baker Street with Sherlock Holmes, a consulting detective unlike anyone he has met.