A Study in Scarlet

A MURDER WITHOUT A MOTIVE. A CLUE WRITTEN IN BLOOD. A DETECTIVE LIKE NO OTHER. When Dr John Watson returns wounded from Afghanistan, he finds himself sharing rooms at 221B Baker Street with the brilliant and deeply unconventional Sherlock Holmes. Watson soon discovers that his mysterious new companion is a consulting detective, called upon by Scotland Yard when its own investigators are confounded. And Holmes’s latest case is as baffling as any he has encountered. A dead man has been discovered in an abandoned London house. There are no wounds on the body, no obvious cause of death – and a single word has been scrawled in blood upon the wall: Rache. Revenge. For Holmes, the scene is rich with clues invisible to everyone else. But to uncover the truth, he and Watson must follow a trail of revenge that stretches far beyond the fogbound streets of Victorian London. First published in 1887, A Study in Scarlet introduced the world to Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson – and began one of literature’s greatest partnerships. This edition is the first in the Estate authorised Conan Doyle Library series.