A STUDY IN SCARLET

'There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is
to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.'
A Study in Scarlet is the literary debut of the world-renowned character of Sherlock Holmes. After
the tragic experience of a war in Afghanistan, Dr John Watson finds himself alongside a new
acquaintance, Sherlock Holmes, in London. Their uneventful lives are soon interrupted by the
unfortunate discovery of a dead man whose face is frozen with an expression of horror and hatred
with the word Rache written in blood on the wall.
With the creation of Sherlock Holmes, the first scientifically grounded fictional detective, Conan
goes on to solve mysteries which are gripping, interesting, and keep you hooked to his most soughtafter
characters.