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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

En lege møter Sherlock Holmes. Doktor Watson, lege i den britiske hæren, kommer hjem fra krigen i Afghanistan. Han leter etter et sted å bo i London.

The world of the book

Fra London til Amerikas ørken. Romanen begynner i London rundt 1880, i en kjempestor by som ofte ligger i tåke. Her driver Sherlock Holmes et yrke han selv har funnet opp: konsulterende detektiv. Når politiet står…

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