Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet and A Scandal in Bohemia: Official Edition

by Arthur Conan Doyle, Bluestone Classics (Editor)

Sherlock Holmes is the most famous detective in history. Created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the 19th Century, he lives dozens of adventures next to his friend and colleague Dr. Watson. "A Study in Scarlet" is the first story of the saga. Both characters meet each other for the first time and they resolve to fight evil together. "A Scandal in Bohemia" is the second story in their adventures, and it is here that we meet Irene Adler, the woman who fascinates Sherlock Holmes from thereafter. This book is an official edition since it contains both stories without forewords, external footnotes, or changes of any kind to the original text.

153 pages, Paperback

Published August 11, 2019

About the author

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.

Doyle was a prolific writer. In addition to the Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the brigantine Mary Celeste, found drifting at sea with no crew member aboard.

Reviews

[Mloy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had often wondered where Irene Adler came from in the Robert Downey Jr. film adaptations of Sherlock Holmes and now I know. I love that she was as clever as Sherlock Holmes and that Holmes acknowledges that fact. Even though this book wasn't really all that long and complex like "The Hound of the Baskerville's", this was still a pretty awesome story.