Start with a scarlet book cover, smoke rising from a meerschaum ... You might say, “Don’t forget A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, or The Valley of Fear” (lest you be hounded by ...

The cover of the 1887 Beeton's Annual. But how do we know today is the exact day A Study in Scarlet came out? Arthur Conan Doyle didn’t exuberantly announce its publication on some rudimentary ...

A Study in Scarlet is Arthur Conan Doyle’s first Holmes story and one of only four actual full-length novels about the detective. It documents his first meeting with Watson who, ravaged from war in ...