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Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Description for Study in Scarlet
Paperback. Detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson 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. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 111 x 12. Weight in Grams: 102.
'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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241952894
SKU
V9780241952894
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99-99
About Arthur Conan Doyle
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 ... Read more
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