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A Study in Scarlet

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet

Paper book: €18.99

Digital: €4.99

Original publication
1887
Monolingual
12 June 2026
Pages
334
Difficulty
Easy
Genres
Crime and Thriller, Adventure
Moods
Solve a mystery
Translated from
English

Book summary

Just back from the war, Dr Watson is looking for lodgings in London and shares rooms with a strange companion: Sherlock Holmes. Soon a man is found dead in an empty house, without a single wound, and a word is written in letters of blood on the wall.

It is Sherlock Holmes's very first case, the one in which the most famous pair of detectives is born.

This short novel is easy to read in the language you are learning.

The plot

医師、シャーロック・ホームズに出会う。英国陸軍の軍医ワトソンが、アフガニスタンの戦争から帰国する。ロンドンで住まいを探している。

The world of the book

ロンドンからアメリカの砂漠へ。物語は1880年ごろのロンドンで始まる。巨大で、しばしば霧に包まれる街だ。シャーロック・ホームズはここで、自ら生み出した職業「諮問探偵」を営んでいる。警察は行き詰まると、彼に助言を求めにやって来る。そして本の半ば、舞台は30年以上前のアメリカ、西部の広大な砂漠へと移る。

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