Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life & our duty is to unravel it After a harrowing tour in Afghanistan Dr Watson returns to London to convalesce at 221B Baker Street home to the enigmatic Sherlock Holmes Their lives are irrevocably thrown together by news that a man has been found dead in a grimy ill-omened' house with the word rache'
- German for revenge
- written in blood on the wall This grisly discovery is complicated further by the look of utter horror on the victim's face & the complete absence of any wounds on the body or sign of a struggle First published in 1887 A Study in Scarlet' is the remarkable first-outing of one of literature's most famous partnerships