a study in scarlet by sir arthur conan doyle

For any new would-be Holmes illustrator, of course, Paget is the most intimidating of ghosts. I read them in two fat volumes my father gave me, which include facsimiles of Sidney Paget's wondrously atmospheric illustrations from Strand magazine. The Sherlock Holmes stories were the first adult books I read, and I often return to them now for good, plain writing and for the comfort of puzzles solved. Something tells me that it won't be Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard. A name has been written in blood on a wall. A man's body is found without a scratch on it. Encouraged by the response, they've now gone further back to A Study in Scarlet, the great detective's very first adventure. These two first tackled the third Holmes novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles, which came out last year. It is also in the middle of publishing a series of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, adapted for the form by INJ Culbard (pictures) and Ian Edginton (words). Titles include Crime and Punishment, The Trial and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. They are engaged to be married but events lead to Lucy’s death and he’s left an angry and vengeful man who vows revenge on all responsible.S elfMadeHero is a brilliant young independent publishing company which specialises in graphic novel versions of the classics. The second part takes us back in time to the year 1847 in Utah where we get to know the murderer as a brave and passionate man who is passionately in love with the beautiful Lucy. I felt the murder mystery very intriguing which left me speculating till the end. They also learn from documents found on his person that he was in London with a friend, Joseph Stangerson. Blood has been found in the room but there is no mark on the body.

Even the police have no leads and the murder is utterly baffling with only the word “Rache” found written on the wall in blood and a ring found near the body. The mystery is that of a dead body found in an abandoned rural manor. I was suddenly given an insight into his occupation when he tells Watson that he is a consulting detective and asks him to join in a new mystery that has come his way. Just as I was busy deciding what it was that Sherlock Holmes did…

A study in scarlet by sir arthur conan doyle