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Description
A Study in Scarlet was the very first Sherlock Holmes novel. Here. In the most remarkably precise manner, Doyle produced two of the most well-known characters in English fiction. Their individual traits and their relationships, their ambitions and foibles are introduced against the backdrop of an exciting story of revenge and persistance, which starts in Victorian England but moves to the American West, and the environment of the early Mormon communities.
It is a full novel, and is here read, unabridged in richly characterised style by David Timson.
This is the fifth Naxos AudioBooks recording of Sherlock Holmes.
“‘Dr. Watson, Mr. Sherlock Holmes’. A mutual friend introduces them, with a view to fixing up a flatshare, and one of literature's greatest partnerships is born. This is the first of the series in which the awesomely logical deductive methods of the great Victorian detective are admiringly related by the man who is to become his steadfast sidekick. But the author seems reluctant to relinquish the role of storyteller completely to the good doctor, and takes over for a chilling account of the early Mormons in America. It all winds back, of course, along “the scarlet thread of murder” to a mysterious corpse found, amid some baffling clues, in a London house. Timson is as solid as Watson, and doesn't get carried away with the drama of it all.”
