For other uses, see A Study in Scarlet (disambiguation).
A Study in Scarlet
First edition in annual cover, 1887
Author
Arthur Conan Doyle
Country
United Kingdom
Series
Sherlock Holmes
Genre
Detective
Publisher
Ward Lock & Co
Publication date
1887 in annual (1888 in book form)
Followed by
The Sign of the Four
Text
A Study in Scarlet at Wikisource
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A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in literature. 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."[1]
The story, and its main characters, attracted little public interest when it first appeared. Eleven complete copies of the magazine in which the story first appeared, Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887, are known to exist now, which have considerable value.[2] Although Conan Doyle wrote 56 short stories featuring Holmes, A Study in Scarlet is one of only four full-length novels in the original canon. The novel was followed by The Sign of the Four, published in 1890. A Study in Scarlet was the first work of detective fiction to incorporate the magnifying glass as an investigative tool.[3]
^Doyle, Arthur Conan. "Chapter 4: What John Rance Had to Tell". A Study in Scarlet.
^Stock, Randall (7 May 2019). "Beeton's Christmas Annual 1887: An Annotated Checklist and Census". The Best of Sherlock Holmes. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
^Sweeney, Susan Elizabeth (2003). "The Magnifying Glass: Spectacular Distance in Poe's "Man of the Crowd" and Beyond". Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism. 36 (1–2): 3. doi:10.1111/j.1754-6095.2003.tb00146.x. S2CID 161345856.
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