Study in Scarlet, A, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Study in Scarlet, A, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Study in Scarlet, A

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Stephen Thorne

Unabridged: 4 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/11/2019


Synopsis

Brought together by a mutual friend, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson discover that they have much more in common than the fact that they're roommates. As Watson begins assisting Sherlock with his work as a consulting detective, he notices that Sherlock has an uncanny ability to assemble deductions based on seemingly minor details.

About Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle, a Scottish writer whose works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays, romances, poetry, and nonfiction, is best known as the creator of the detective Sherlock Holmes. While Holmes was the embodiment of scientific thinking, Doyle himself did not exhibit the same rationality, believing in fairies and occultism. His Sherlock Holmes stories have been translated into more than fifty languages and have been made into plays, films, radio and television series, cartoons, and comic books. By 1920, Doyle was one of the most highly paid writers in the world. Other works by Doyle include The Lost World, the first book in the Professor Challenger series; The White Company, one of his many historical novels; and The Great Boer War.

Doyle was born at Picardy Place, near Edinburgh, in 1859. He was educated in Jesuit schools and studied at Edinburgh University. In 1884, he married Louise Hawkins. Doyle qualified as a doctor in 1885 and practiced medicine as an eye specialist in Hampshire until 1891, when he became a full-time writer. Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, was published in 1887 and introduced the detective's faithful associate, Dr. Watson.

During the Boer war in South Africa (1899-1902), Doyle served several months as the senior physician at a field hospital. There he wrote The War in South Africa, in which he expressed the imperial view. He twice ran unsuccessfully for Parliament but nevertheless was knighted in 1902. In 1907, fourteen months after his wife died, Doyle married Jean Leckie. After his son Kingsley died in the first World War, Doyle dedicated himself to spiritualistic studies at his home in Windlesham, Sussex. He died himself in 1930.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bailey

The book "A Study in Scarlet/ The Hounds of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle is a wonderful read and I enjoyed every second that I spent reading it. Although there are many great qualities about this book, there are two qualities that stand out as the best to me. The first one is the mystery......more

Goodreads review by Maris

Holmes´i lugude lugemine on veidi nagu koeraga jalutamine, kus võib imestada, et mida kõike saab välja lugeda maastikult, mis endale vaikne ja igav tundub. Aeglasem reisimine ja paberkirjade ootamine tasakaalustavad kuritegevuste süngust rahulikuma tundelaadiga. Esimene lugu viib tühja ja elutusse p......more

Goodreads review by James

Apparently I am in a detective story mood. This is a volume that contains two of Doyle's "long" Holmes stories. I've not read these in quite some time, so much enjoyed sinking back into the Holmes mythos! A Study in Scarlet is actually the story where Watson meets Holmes for the first time! Their fi......more

A fun read. Holmes is painted as a gifted, neurotic and eccentric genius - more so than a suited and proper English gentleman. The story is a lot more complex and nuanced than I had expected while still keeping the pace of a (somewhat) lighthearted whodunnit. I might be hooked on Holmes.......more

Goodreads review by Julie

The game's afoot! Whether it's chasing down criminals in the gritty streets of London or searching for a ghostly hound on the foggy moors Sherlock is the classic detective that few can compare. I went back to the original Sherlock after years of reading other modern writers versions of the great det......more