A Study in Scarlet
The Sherlock Holmes Series (Related to this series)
- Author Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrator Marnye Young
- Publish Date 9 January 2018
- Run Time 4 hours and 25 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Classic crime and mystery fiction, Classic fiction.
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What to expect
“There’s a scarlet thread of murder running through the colorless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.”
From the moment Dr. John Watson takes lodgings in Baker Street with the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, he becomes intimately acquainted with the bloody violence and frightening ingenuity of the criminal mind.
In A Study in Scarlet, Holmes and Watson’s first mystery, the pair are summoned to a south London house where they find a dead man whose 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.
The police are baffled by the crime and its circumstances. But when Sherlock Holmes applies his brilliantly logical mind to the problem, he uncovers a tragic tale of love and deadly revenge.
Critics Review
“[Holmes] is probably the only literary creation since the creations of Dickens which has really passed into the life and language of the people.”
| Author | Arthur Conan Doyle |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Marnye Young |
| Series | The Sherlock Holmes Series |
| Duration | 4 hours and 25 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781538540497 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Genre | Classic crime and mystery fiction, Classic fiction |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE, US |
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