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A Study in Scarlet
- Author
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrator
- Marnye Young
- Publish Date
- 9 January 2018
- Run Time
- 4 hours 25 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
“There’s a scarlet thread of murder running through the colorless 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 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.
The police are baffled by the crime and its circumstances. But when Sherlock Holmes applies his brilliantly logical mind to the problem, he uncovers a tragic tale of love and deadly revenge.
Critics Review
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“[Holmes] is probably the only literary creation since the creations of Dickens which has really passed into the life and language of the people.”
G. K. Chesterton
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Details
- Author
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrator
- Marnye Young
- Duration
- 4 hours 25 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 January 2018
- ISBN
- 9781538540497
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Classic crime and mystery fiction, Classic fiction
Synopsis
“There’s a scarlet thread of murder running through the colorless 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 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.The police are baffled by the crime and its circumstances. But when Sherlock Holmes applies his brilliantly logical mind to the problem, he uncovers a tragic tale of love and deadly revenge.
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