![]() (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. In his first adventure, Holmes demonstrates many of the traits for which he later became well known: meticulous study of a crime scene, brilliant deductive reasoning, aptitude for chemistry and music, and the somewhat annoying habit of withholding crucial facts from Watson (and consequently the reader) until the conclusion of the case. The action returns to London in the last two chapters. A Study in Scarlet is one of the weirder Sherlock Holmes stories its strange final section, told in recollection by our murderer, is set in Mormon Utah which perhaps is why it slipped by. In the second half of the story, the scene shifts to Utah as we learn the murderer's history. The crime baffles the Scotland Yard detectives, but of course Holmes solves it easily. Introduction by Anne Perry Includes newly commissioned endnotes In 1887, a young Arthur Conan Doyle published A Study in Scarlet, creating an international icon in the quick-witted sleuth Sherlock Holmes.In this very first Holmes mystery, the detective introduces himself to Dr. ![]() Watson meets the detective for the first time and we ride along with them to the scene of a murder. ![]() Read by Laurie Anne Walden.Ī Study in Scarlet, a short novel published in 1887, was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story. LibriVox recording of A Study in Scarlet, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ![]()
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