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A Study In Scarlet introduces us to Sherlock Holmes, the world's greatest and most enduring detective. Sherlock Holmes is a consulting detective with a capacity to solve the most perplexing of crimes. In the Sign of Four Sherlock Holmes is called to the scene of an unexplained death in London. It doesn't seem like a murder until Sherlock is able to use his keen powers of observation. What he discovers is a plot to kill that started a long time ago with a feud.
Of course this book deserves 5 stars. Although Sherlock wasn't the first fictional detective he was probably by far the most popular and has continued to be so. Surprisingly at the time this book didn't do very well. It was the serialisation that catapulted Holmes and Conan-Doyle to world fame. But is for its impact on crime fiction that it deserves full credit. Without Holmes crime fiction would probably not be where it is today.
And not only this, no-one has since come close to writing anything like as captivating and intriguing as Sherlock. The TV series Jonathon Creek and Andrew Mayne's Angel Killer attempt to come close but it is too Holmes you must turn if you really want to solve the impossible.
In The Series
#1
A Study In Scarlet
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#2
The Sign of Four
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#3
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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#4
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
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#3
The Hound of the Baskervilles
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#6
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
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#7
The
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#8
His Last Bow
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#9
The Casebook of Sherlock Homes
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#10
The House of Silk  |
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