The stories and novels that followed-including The Sign of Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles-expanded the duo’s practice at 221B Baker Street, thrilling readers with the impeccable powers of deduction that inevitably guide Holmes toward any mystery’s solution.Ī Study in Scarlet, a tale of Mormons and murder, is a drama of long-simmering revenge that plays out on the gaslit streets of London but has its dark roots in the pioneer settlements of Utah. Watson and Holmes would go on to become two of the most widely admired characters in all of literature. In 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s mystery novel A Study in Scarlet unleashed for the first time the unflappable Sherlock Holmes and his partner, Dr. Three of the enthralling novels that brought us the world’s greatest fictional detective are gathered here in one volume.
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