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Loading... Penguin Classics Study In Scarlet (original 1887; edition 2001)by Arthur Doyle, Ian Sinclair (Foreword)
Work detailsA Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1887)
Amazing book! Most (all?) of the other Sherlock Holmes books take place totally in Great Britain. This one makes a *very* interesting side trip to the United States. (  ) CatQuilt | May 10, 2013 |  Interested in more of my reviews? Visit my blog! Part I The Storyline This being the first story in the Sherlock Holmes series, this is also the introduction of the two main characters: Holmes and Watson. After meeting one another they agree to move in together as they were both in need of a roommate. Shortly after, a man is discovered as being murdered and Sherlock Holmes is asked to evaluate the scene to determine if there is any evidence of who may have done it. The only clue is a woman’s wedding ring and the words “RACHE” written in blood on the wall. My Thoughts Okay so… I think I have a bit of a crush. I loved Sherlock eccentricity and how unconventional he was. I will admit, the mystery wasn't really much of a mystery but it was still entertaining nonetheless. It did get a big "oooohhhhhhhhh...." from me once the mystery was finally solved though. Silly me, probably should have seen that one coming. ‘There is no mystery about it at all. I am simply applying to ordinary life a few of those precepts of observation and deduction which I advocated in that article. Is there anything else that puzzles you?’ Part II So, umm… I thought I missed something. The second half of this book was almost like a different book entirely and all of a sudden I’m right smack dab in the middle of Utah and everyone has buckets o’ wives? hahaha… Funny. Anyways. Essentially, the second half of this book was a major bash-fest on the Mormons. I figure that’s why it ended up on the banned book list. "We have come," continued Stangerson, "at the advice of our fathers to solicit the hand of your daughter for whichever of us may seem good to you and to her. As I have but four wives and Brother Drebber here has seven, it appears to me that my claim is the stronger one." Uh-huh. Five is definitely better than eight. Overall, pretty enjoyable, would definitely be interested in reading more about Sherlock most definitely. (  ) bonniemarjorie | May 7, 2013 | TEST A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle is the very first novel featuring English detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson(...). Dr. Watson, coming back from military service in India and Afghanistan, needs a place to live. A friend introduces him to Sherlock Holmes and they ende up rooming together in an apartment in Baker Street, London. Holmes, a “consulting detective” and an opium addict, is soon on his first case, a murder, and taking his new friend with him(...).A Study in Scarlet is a strange book with a strange structure which is actually two stories thinly connected. The first part is the more interesting, with the legendary meeting between the detective and the doctor, and an introduction to the characters as well as to the murder mystery. The second part shifts from London to Utah where we get a somewhat sympathetic back-story to the murder and his deed (...).The story gives Holmes his ability to show off his analytical powers as well as his attitude, which makes him a great detective but a lousy human being. source: blogcritics.org  MSzuflita | Apr 21, 2013 | 5-stars for fun; 2-stars for writing. which was interesting but clunky. i loved sherlock in my teens so i was hoping this would have held up better for me. ( ) BookishJoJo | Apr 13, 2013 | I only have one of the Sherlock Holmes books on my Crime Fiction list, and that is The Hound of the Baskervilles, but I prefer to get everything and since there are books set before that one, I decided to read them. Besides, they're available for free on Project Gutenberg. Besides, I saw the new movie, with Robert Downey Jr., a couple of weeks ago. I read this one on the train, more or less without stopping once. I was surprised by how easy it was to read and be absorbed in, given how old it is, but it really is a pleasure to read. Actually reading the books dispels a lot of mental assumptions about Sherlock Holmes which I gained through, I think, some kind of cultural osmosis. E.g. Watson is young, went to war, not a bad doctor, etc. I have two main complaints, really. One is that it's not the kind of book that really allows you to find things out for yourself. Holmes is so opaque -- at least to me! -- that I'm really just as confused as Watson, most of the time. And the other complaint is about the big flashback in the middle. I almost wondered if my ebook version had somehow got muddled with another book! It's not uninteresting, but it's hard to see at first how it connects up, because the transition is so sudden. Still, enjoyable -- and nice to meet the great detective himself, after so much hearsay. (  ) shanaqui | Apr 9, 2013 | no reviews | add a review Is contained inThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes: Complete Illustrated Novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A Study in Scarlet; The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Complete Sherlock Holmes Long Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Conan Doyle stories; six notable adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A Study in Scarlet; and The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The adventures of Sherlock Holmes ; The memoirs of Sherlock Holmes ; The return of Sherlock Holmes ; The hound of the Baskervilles ; A study in scarlet ... the Bruce-Partington plans (Masters Library) by Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes - Edição Completa: Romances e Contos by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I by Arthur Conan Doyle The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Volume One) by Arthur Conan Doyle The Complete Sherlock Holmes and The Complete Tales Of Terror and Mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Collection) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle De complete avonturen van Sherlock Holmes / 1 by Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (indirect) Has the adaptationA Study in Scarlet: A Sherlock Holmes Graphic Novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Classics Illustrated: A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle Is expanded inInspired
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0140057072, Paperback)Arthur Conan Doyle's Study in Scarlet is the first published story involving the legendary Sherlock Holmes, arguably the world's best-known detective, and the first narrative by Holmes's Boswell, the unassuming Dr. Watson, a military surgeon lately returned from the Afghan War. Watson needs a flat-mate and a diversion. Holmes needs a foil. And thus a great literary collaboration begins.Watson and Holmes move to a now-famous address, 221B Baker Street, where Watson is introduced to Holmes's eccentricities as well as his uncanny ability to deduce information about his fellow beings. Somewhat shaken by Holmes's egotism, Watson is nonetheless dazzled by his seemingly magical ability to provide detailed information about a man glimpsed once under the streetlamp across the road. 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." Holmes is in that elite group. Conan Doyle quickly learned that it was Holmes's deductions that were of most interest to his readers. The lengthy flashback, while a convention of popular fiction, simply distracted from readers' real focus. It is when Holmes and Watson gather before the coal fire and Holmes sums up the deductions that led him to the successful apprehension of the criminal that we are most captivated. Subsequent Holmes stories--The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes--rightly plunge the twosome directly into the middle of a baffling crime, piling mystery upon mystery until Holmes's denouement once more leaves the dazzled Watson murmuring, "You are wonderful, Holmes!" Generations of readers agree. --Barbara Schlieper (retrieved from Amazon Mon, 20 Sep 2010 01:59:09 -0400) In this first of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the murder of an American and his private secretary. (summary from another edition) |
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