Friday, April 30, 2021

Arthur Conan Doyle

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“In 1887, a young Arthur Conan Doyle published A Study in Scarlet, thus creating an international icon in the quick-witted sleuth Sherlock Holmes. In this, the first Holmes mystery, the detective introduces himself to Dr. Watson with the puzzling line “You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive." And so begins Watson’s, and the world’s, fascination with this enigmatic character.

Doyle presents two equally perplexing mysteries for Holmes to solve: one a murder that takes place in the shadowy outskirts of London, in a locked room where the haunting word Rache is written upon the wall, the other a kidnapping set in the American West. Quickly picking up the “scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life," Holmes does not fail at finding the truth – and making literary history."

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The first time I read Sherlock Holmes in English. I’m trying my best to find all the books in libraries. I might purchase the series when I can find a decent edition.

Skipped most of the part that happened in American West. Don’t want to go through what happened to John Ferrier and Lucy Ferrier. So unbearably cruel!!