A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson who would become the most famous detective duo in popular fiction. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes a consulting detective to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his 'study in scarlet': 'There's the 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.'
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Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. He was educated at Stoneyhurst and Edinburgh University where he qualified as a doctor. He practised at Southsea from 1882-1890, but from that date he... more
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