The mystery revolves around a corpse found at a derelict house in Brixton, London with the word "RACHE" scrawled in blood on the wall beside the body. This part is told in first person by Sherlock Holmes' friend Dr Watson, and describes his introduction in 1881 to Holmes through a mutual friend and the first mystery in which he followed Holmes' investigations. The first is titled "Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John Watson, M.D., Late of the Army Medical Department". The novel is split into two quite separate halves. Watson meets the great detective Sherlock Holmes and together they solve a case of murder, in which Watson is amazed at Holmes' "science of deduction".
The novel was followed by The Sign of the Four, published in 1890.ĭr John H. Although Doyle wrote fifty-six short stories featuring Holmes, A Study in Scarlet is one of only four full-length novels in the original canon. Only ten copies of Beeton's Christmas Annual 1887 are known to exist now and they have considerable value. The story, and its main character, attracted little public interest when it first appeared. Numerous further editions, translations and dramatisations have appeared since. A second edition appeared the following year and was illustrated by George Hutchinson a year later in 1890, J. The novel was first published as a book on July 1888 by Ward, Lock & Co., and featured drawings by the author's father, Charles Doyle. The author received £25 in return for the full rights (although Conan Doyle had pressed for a royalty instead). in Beeton's Christmas Annual 1887, after many rejections. The story was originally titled A Tangled Skein, and was eventually published by Ward Lock & Co. A general practice doctor in Southsea, England, he had already published short stories in several magazines of the day, such as the periodical London Society. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes to his companion Doctor Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his 'study in scarlet': "There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."Ĭonan Doyle wrote the novel at the age of 27. It is the first story to feature the character of Sherlock Holmes, who would later become one of the most famous and iconic literary detective characters, with long-lasting interest and appeal. A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who first published it in 1887.
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