A Study in Scarlet
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet is the first of four full-length novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the brilliant Sherlock Holmes. Published in 1887, it sets the stage with the characters and themes that recur throughout all the Holmes stories and novels.
Part I opens with the reminiscences of Dr. Watson of the initial meeting with the eccentric Holmes and their decision to share lodgings at 221B Baker Street. Dazzled by Holmes’ extraordinary intelligence and puzzled by his motley cast of visitors at all hours, he learns that Holmes is a “consulting detective”. Holmes’ description of his work gives Watson’s narrative its title: “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." Scotland Yard requests Holmes in a baffling murder case and Watson is invited along as Inspectors Gregson and Lestrade chase down obvious but erroneous leads while Sherlock, with the help the “Baker Street Irregulars”, manages to apprehend the murderer. Part II flashes back to in Salt Lake Valley in Utah and describes the convoluted misdeeds of the murder victims and the revenge sought by the murderer. The papers give Scotland Yard all the credit, as Holmes had feared they would, which prompts Watson to publish the adventure and set the record straight.
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Product Details
| Read by: | David Clarke |
| Length: | 4 hours 35 minutes |
| Type: | Solo |
| Media: | MP3 CD |
| Package: | DVD case |
| Item No.: | DB-1102 |
| EAN: | 0684758935922 |
| List Price: | $9.99 |
Credits
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Book Coordinator: Eric Leach
Meta Coordinator Diana Majlinger
Proof Listener: Betty M.
Artwork
Cover: Illustration by Sidney Paget of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Greek Interpreter", which appeared in the Strand Magazine in September, 1893. Original caption was "HOLMES PULLED OUT HIS WATCH."
Inset: Illustration by Sidney Paget of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson from “The Adventure of the Silver Blaze”, Strand Magazine, December 1892.
Inset: Photograph of Arthur Conan Doyle by Arnold Genthe June, 1914.
Insert background: “The Death of Sherlock Holmes”, by Sidney Paget 1894 frontispiece from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
The Recordings
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The Recordings
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Table of Contents
| Track | Chapter | Duration |
| 01 | 01 - Adventure I: Silver Blaze | 50:17 |
| 02 | 02 - Adventure II: The Yellow Face | 37:32 |
| 03 | 03 - Adventure III: The Stock-Broker's Clerk | 34:01 |
| 04 | 04 - Adventure IV: The "Gloria Scott" | 39:48 |
| 05 | 05 - Adventure V: The Musgrave Ritual | 37:44 |
| 06 | 06 - Adventure VI: The Reigate Puzzle | 37:30 |
| 07 | 07 - Adventure VII: The Crooked Man | 35:14 |
| 08 | 08 - Adventure VIII: The Resident Patient | 38:13 |
| 09 | 09 - Adventure IX: The Greek Interpreter | 36:56 |
| 10 | 10 - Adventure X: The Naval Treaty | 1:07:19 |
| 11 | 11 - Adventure XI: The Final Problem | 36:37 |
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