Watson is baffled by his companionâs strange nature, his peculiar interests, his unusual breadth of knowledge in certain fields alongside his shocking ignorance in others, and his many strange visitors.

The pair agree to share the rent of a flat Holmes has found. In precarious health and even more precarious financial straits, heâs looking for cheap lodgings when a friend introduces him to Sherlock Holmes. John Watson, a medical doctor who has recently returned to London after suffering serious injury and illness as part of the Army Medical Department deployed to Afghanistan. It attracted little public attention at the time, but interest in Holmes continued to build with the subsequent series of short stories Doyle wrote featuring the austere, analytical detectiveânow one of the most well-known characters in all of English literature.Ī Study in Scarlet is told from the point of view of Dr. It was published in 1887 in a popular magazine, Beetonâs Christmas Annual. Will you support our efforts with a donation?Ī Study in Scarlet is the novel which first introduced Arthur Conan Doylesâ iconic characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr. We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Standard EbooksĤ3,734 words (2 hours 40 minutes) with a reading ease of 71.55 (fairly easy) And I look forward more to next year's release of Laurie R Kings' second part of 'The Language of Bees.A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. I will persevere on to other of Conan Doyle's novels or short stories, but without as high expectations. Also, the recording quality of my download was a bit wonky - I didn't bother to re-download to see if that corrected the sound glitches (probably would). The original Holmes is still a great invention, but Conan Doyle didn't create great fiction around him, in this novel anyway -Even Simon Prebble couldn't make this a great listen to me (and sometimes I wonder if Simon was bored - this is not his best narration).

I was delighted to see new versions of the Conan Doyle's classics and eagerly wanted to listen to this one -Perhaps my expectations were just too high. I've become enamored of detective fiction only in the last year, and I came to Holmes through his reinterpretations by authors like Laurie R King and Nicolas Meyer.

This is probably heresy to Holmes fans but.

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