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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "A Study in Scarlet" houses the debut appearance of the great Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson.It is the first of the four murder mysteries in the Sherlock Holmes series. "A Study in Scarlet" was first published in 1887 in "Beeton's Christmas Annual" and made into a book the following year. "There's the 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."

A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new characters, "consulting detective" Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler, Dr. John Watson, who later became two of the most famous characters in literature. Conan Doyle wrote the story in 1886, and it was published the following year. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes to Doctor 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."

“A Study in Scarlet” is the first novel of Sherlock Holmes’ series. Generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, the novel is full of suspense and action with Holmes disentangling a mind-boggling mystery. The book explicitly unfolds the dark corners of human psychology which in turn gives immense understanding of the criminal mind. Engrossing!