The whole murder and everything is just overly melodramatic.Īnd then there was the way that the Mormons were portrayed. Why wouldn’t a British detective know all about the American West? Please. But the actual mystery? Improbable is not even the word for it. I enjoyed the setup with Sherlock Holmes and Mr. I have a collection on my nook now and I decided to re-read this first–novella, I’ll call it–for old times’ sake. When I ran out of library books, I occasionally delved into my parents’ shelves and that’s how I was first introduced to Mr. I read a lot of Sherlock Holmes way back in high school one summer. Picking up the “scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life,” Holmes demonstrates his uncanny knack for finding the truth, tapping into powers of deduction that still captivate readers today. In A Study in Scarlet, Doyle presents two equally perplexing mysteries for Holmes to solve: one a murder that takes place in the shadowy outskirts of London, in a locked room where the haunting word Rache is written upon the wall, the other a kidnapping set in the American West. Watson with the puzzling line “You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive,” and so begins Watson’s, and the world’s, fascination with this enigmatic character. In this very first Holmes mystery, the detective introduces himself to Dr. In 1887, a young Arthur Conan Doyle published A Study in Scarlet, creating an international icon in the quick-witted sleuth Sherlock Holmes. I will earn a small commission at no additional cost to you if you purchase merchandise through links on my site. I found myself skimming lots of parts of this book, and trying to read it very quickly to ‘get it over with’.I have an affiliate relationship with and Malaprop's Bookstore in beautiful Asheville, NC. The article Holmes mentions allowed Watson to understand his strange tactics.
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He has amazing powers of observation that he uses to piece together in order to make the full jigsaw. Observation with me is second nature.” Watson is very apprehensive of Holmes’ way of working, but the above quote demonstrates Holmes explaining his manner as a detective. Those rules of deduction laid down in that article which aroused your scorn, are invaluable to me in practical work.
You see I have a lot of special knowledge which I apply to the problem, and which facilitates matters wonderfully. Then I have to bustle about and see things with my own eyes. Holmes claims that he has a “kind of intuition…now and again a case turns up which is a little more complex.
I thoroughly enjoyed the first part of the story but in the second part, I found myself skipping sections, wanting to return to Holmes and find out who the murderer was. The story follows their life and introduces Jefferson Hope through them, a vital character that links back to Part One. John and his daughter Lucy are struggling to survive after their travelling companions have died, but they are rescued. The novella is split into two parts the first in which Holmes discovers the body, and the second, which moves to a wild and isolated American desert. Conan Doyle introduced the idea of a magnifying glass as a detective’s investigative tool, something that is now so stereotypical as a symbol of a detective. However, A Study in Scarlet can be construed as more of a novella than a novel, as it is only 127 pages long. He wrote fifty-six short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes and four full-length novels. Watson and Holmes are living together when a body is discovered. And so the great detective duo begins.Ĭonan Doyle wrote the story in 1886, but it attracted little public interest.
Watson tells a friend, Stamford, that he is desperately searching for accommodation in London, and Stamford declares that he also has a friend looking to find someone whom he can share a house with.
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And having read them, I’ve come to the conclusion that I do not understand what the big fuss is about.Ī Study in Scarlet is the first in the Sherlock Holmes series and it begins with Dr Watson, the narrator, who has recently moved to London to recover from his illnesses while he was working as a soldier in Afghanistan.
I’d never read any of the books until I came to university and two of Doyle’s books were on our course. I’ve never been a massive fan of Sherlock Holmes I never watched the British series,or the film with Jude Law in it.
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