# A Study in Scarlet

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- Book: [A Study in Scarlet](https://www.bookquiver.com/arthur-conan-doyle/a-study-in-scarlet) ([A Study in Scarlet.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/arthur-conan-doyle/a-study-in-scarlet.md))
- Authors: [Arthur Conan Doyle](https://www.bookquiver.com/arthur-conan-doyle)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4139-552-4
- Pages: 160
- Published: 2014-09-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Penguin English Library edition When Dr John Watson takes rooms in Baker Street with amateur detective Sherlock Holmes, he has no idea that he is about to enter a shadowy world of criminality and violence. Accompanying Holmes to an ill-omened house in south London, Watson is startled to find a dead man whose face is contorted in a rictus of horror. There is no mark of violence on the body yet a single word is written on the wall in blood. Dr Watson is as baffled as the police, but Holmes's brilliant analytical skills soon uncover a trail of murder, revenge and lost love . . .