Holmes is his brilliant best, leaving the police officers behind as he discovers the killer. … a pure-blooded well-trained foxhound as it dashes backwards and forwards through the covert, whining in its eagerness, until it comes across the lost scent. Very soon they are involved in investigating the murder of Enoch J Drebber, an American found dead in the front room of an empty house at 3 Lauriston Gardens, off the Brixton Road, with the word “RACHE” scrawled in blood on the wall beside the body.Ī Study in Scarlet is a superb story introducing Conan Doyle’s characters – Holmes reminds Watson of Tobias Gregson and Lestrade both Scotland Yard detectives regularly ask Holmes for his help. They get on immediately and take a suite of rooms in 221B Baker Street, after Holmes astounded Watson by deducing that Watson had served in Afghanistan. Holmes describes his occupation as a ‘ consulting detective‘ solving crimes for both private individuals and the police, using his intuition, observation and the rules of deduction. … He appears to have a passion for definite and exact knowledge.’ As a result he was weak and emaciated – ‘ as thin as a lather and as brown as a nut.‘ He was looking for lodgings when he met a friend who introduced him to an acquaintance who was working in the chemical laboratory at the hospital – Sherlock Holmes, who he described as ‘ a little too scientific for my tastes – it approaches to cold-bloodedness. The first, narrated by Dr John Watson, begins in 1881 with Watson on nine months convalescent leave from the army, having been shot in his shoulder whilst in Afghanistan, followed by an attack of enteric fever. A Study in Scarlet is a novel in two parts. This is the first Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson mystery, published in 1887.
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