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In a long story whose title was changed by its author from A Tangled Skein to A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes was born. It appeared first in Beeton's Christmas Annual of 1887 and received little attention from either critics or the public. Yet it laid the foundation of the greatest literary cult of this century, is now a world classic and in first edition is extremely valuable.
An American named Enoch J. Drebber has been murdered, and no clue exists save the word Rache scrawled in blood on the wall. No clue, that is, to Inspector Tobias Gregson of Scotland Yard. Holmes, aided by his foil and companion Dr John H. Watson, deduces a little more and is less surprised than the police when the dead man's private secretary is murdered — with Rache again written in blcx»d nearby — after the suspect has been placed under lock and key.
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A Study in Scarlet (Annotated)
2014-07-11, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Estudio en escarlata
2009-05, Algar editorial
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in Spanish
- 1a ed.
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A Study in Scarlet
1976, Doubleday
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A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in literature.
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