A Study in Scarlet
Book 1 of Sherlock Holmes
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin
Published: Jan 1, 1887
Date Read:
Jan 6, 1994
Form:
Novella
Pages:
135
Read Status:
read
Word Count:
44249
Book Details
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Description:
Dr. Watson, a military surgeon lately returned from the Afghan War, needs a flat-mate and a diversion. Sherlock Holmes needs a foil. And thus a great literary collaboration begins.
Then murder. Facing a deserted house, a twisted corpse with no wounds, a mysterious phrase drawn in blood on the wall, and the buffoons of Scotland Yard--Lestrade and Gregson--Holmes measures, observes, picks up a pinch of this and a pinch of that, and generally baffles his faithful Watson.
Later, Holmes explains: "In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward.... There are few people who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result."
Sherlock Holmes is one of those people.