‘There’s the scarlet thread of\n murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is\n to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.’ \n  A Study in Scarlet  is the literary debut of the world-renowned\n character of Sherlock Holmes. After the tragic experience of a war in\n Afghanistan, Dr John Watson finds himself alongside a new\n acquaintance, Sherlock Holmes, in London. Their uneventful lives are soon\n interrupted by the\n unfortunate discovery of a dead man whose face is frozen with an expression\n of horror and hatred\n with the word Rache written in blood on the wall. \n With the creation of Sherlock Holmes, the first scientifically grounded\n fictional detective, Conan\n goes on to solve mysteries which are gripping, interesting, and keep you\n hooked to his most soughtafter characters.