A Study in Scarlet (1887) by Arthur-Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Note by Joseph Bell (1837-1911) and Illustration by George Wylie Hutchinson (1852–1942)**A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by Scottish author Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1886, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in popular fiction. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, a consulting detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": "There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it." (wikipédia)***extract:A STUDY IN SCARLET PART I (Being a reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., Late of the Army Medical Department) CHAPTER I MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES In the year 1878 I took my degre...