Study in Scarlet

''There''s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life.'' In Arthur Conan Doyle''s A Study in Scarlet a popular cultural phenomenon is born. We meet two of the most famous characters in modern literary history: the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, an army doctor home on sick leave, for the first time. Through Watson we learn a little about the ecc...