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A Study in Scarlet

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet

Paper book: €23.99

Digital: €8.99

Original publication
1887
Bilingual edition
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

A doctor meets Sherlock Holmes. Dr Watson, a British army doctor, comes home from the war in Afghanistan. He is looking for lodgings in London.

The world of the book

From London to the American desert. The novel opens in London around 1880, in a vast city often wrapped in fog. There Sherlock Holmes practises a profession he invented himself: consulting detective. When the police…

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