A Study in Scarlet (Summarized Edition)

A Study in Scarlet inaugurates the Sherlock Holmes saga with a daring, two-part architecture: a London murder investigation followed by an American frontier chronicle that redefines motive and justice. Through Dr. Watson's measured memoir, Conan Doyle fuses ratiocination with Victorian forensics—chemical blood tests, footprints, cigar ash—and shifts, midstream, to an omniscient history. First prin...