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A Study in Scarlet (1887) is the novel that introduced Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to the world. An invalided army surgeon takes rooms at 221B Baker Street with an eccentric consulting detective and is almost at once drawn into the investigation of a body found in an empty house off the Brixton Road — a London mystery that unfolds backward into the Utah desert and a long-deferred act of revenge. The first work of modern detective fiction, and the opening of the most enduring partnership in English literature.
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