Publisher's Synopsis
From the moment Dr John Watson takes home in Baker Street with the detective Sherlock Holmes, he becomes acquainted with bloody violence and criminal mind. In A Study in Scarlet, Holmes and Watson's first mystery, they find a dead man whose contorted 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. Work introduced by an original biography of Arthur Conan Doyle.
