Fiction · 1887
A Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet, first published in 1887, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Part I
- Chapter I — Mr. Sherlock Holmes
- Chapter II — The Science of Deduction
- Chapter III — The Lauriston Gardens Mystery
- Chapter IV — What John Rance Had to Tell
- Chapter V — Our Advertisement Brings a Visitor
- Chapter VI — Tobias Gregson Shows What He Can Do
- Chapter VII — Light in the Darkness
- Part II
- Chapter I — On the Great Alkali Plain
- Chapter II — The Flower of Utah
- Chapter III — John Ferrier Talks with the Prophet
- Chapter IV — A Flight for Life
- Chapter V — The Avenging Angels
- Chapter VI — A Continuation of the Reminiscences of John Watson, M.D
- Chapter VII — The Conclusion
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About the author
1859–1930 · Victorian
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was born in Edinburgh and trained as a physician there before practising in Southsea, where he wrote A Study in Scarlet (1887), the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes. The Holmes stories in the Strand Magazine from 1891 made him famous; he killed the detective in 1893 and revived him in 1901–03. He also wrote historical novels, the Professor Challenger stories (The Lost World, 1912), military histories, and, in his later years, extensively on spiritualism. He was knighted in 1902.
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