A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

Like other installments in the Sherlock Holmes franchise, A Study in Scarlet has been adapted many times for a variety of media, including comics, radio, television, film, and the stage. When visiting Utah for the first time in 1923, Doyle was asked to apologize for this depiction, but he defended the relevant content in the novel as historical. A Study in Scarlet has occasionally generated controversy relating to the negative depiction of early Mormons in the chapters that take place in Utah. Since then, A Study in Scarlet has been published in many editions both in English and in translation, and allusions to the novel have frequently appeared in the works of other authors. The novel was first published as a book the following year, but it was not until Doyle’s publication of the Sherlock Holmes short story “A Scandal in Bohemia” in The Strand Magazine in 1891 that the character of Sherlock Holmes received widespread acclaim. Originally called A Tangled Skein, the novel was rejected by several publishers before it was accepted for publication as A Study in Scarlet in the November 1887 issue of Beeton’s Christmas Annual, an obscure British magazine remembered for little other than its inauguration of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, a consulting detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his 'study in scarlet': 'There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.Download cover art Download CD case insert A Study in Scarlet (Version 7 Dramatic Reading)Īrthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr.

Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in popular fiction. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Sat 21st Jan 1978, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FMĪ Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle. Saturday-Night Theatre: A Study in Scarlet Watson MD, has recently taken up residence at 221B Baker Street. He consults Mr Sherlock Holmes, a rather eccentric young gentleman who, together with J. Inspector Gregson of Scotland Yard is puzzled. An American is found dead in an empty house in the Brixton Road.

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle