A Study in Scarlet - Sherlock Holmes: Book 1

Informationen zum Autor Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Edinburgh where he qualified as a doctor, but it was his writing which brought him fame, with the creation of Sherlock Holmes, the first scientific detective. He was also a convert to spiritualism and a social reformer who used his investigative skills to prove the innocence of individuals. Klappentext Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) started to write as a doctor, whilst waiting for patients to arrive. Sherlock Holmes first appeared in A Study in Scarlet (1887). The Holmes stories soon attracted such a following that Conan Doyle felt the character overshadowed his other work. In The Final Problem (1893) Conan Doyle killed him off, but was obliged by public demand to restore the detective to life. Zusammenfassung 'There's a 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.' From the moment Dr John Watson takes lodgings in Baker Street with the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, he becomes intimately acquainted with the bloody violence and frightening ingenuity of the criminal mind. In A Study in Scarlet , Holmes and Watson's first mystery, the pair are summoned to a south London house where they find a dead man whose contorted face is a twisted mask of horror. The body is unmarked by violence but on the wall a mysterious word has been written in blood. The police are baffled by the crime and its circumstances. But when Sherlock Holmes applies his brilliantly logical mind to the problem he uncovers a tragic tale of love and deadly revenge . . .

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• Authors: Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur C Doyle, Arthur C. Doyle, Arthur Conan Doyle
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2011
• EAN: 9780241952894
• ISBN: 978-0-241-95289-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 113 mm x 182 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Sherlock Holmes; The Penguin Sherlock Holmes Collection; SHERLOCK HOLMES; The Penguin Sherlock Holmes Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Cozy / General, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Humour, TV tie-in humour, Classic fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary