A Study in Scarlet By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle This is my first experience with a Sherlock Homes story, and I don't know exactly what I was expecting, but it wasn't this. A Study in Scarlet revolves around Watson's first meeting with Homes and the first case Watson witnesses Holmes solve. Holmes, in this story, is just 24 years old. I always expected him to be much older, but I imagine as the stories progress through time he'll age. The case is about a man found murdered in a vacant house with no sign of injuries, but a bloody word written on the wall. Holmes, who has previously tried to convince his new housemate Watson that he can figure things out based on deduction, is called in by two local detectives who like to take credit for his work. Holmes figures out who killed the man and how, except for one clue which comes later upon the discovery of another murdered man, where the mode of the murder is revealed to him. After this all takes place in the first part, the s...