The denouement was a bit too quick for my tastes I don't believe Doyle left any loose threads dangling, but I would have appreciated a more fleshed-out ending to balance the long flashback detailing the killer's motive. The crime and its solution were put together cleverly and logically, although this is not a fair-play mystery readers can solve for themselves. Although others have found the shift from Watson's first-person narration to the third-person flashback to be jarring, both narrative threads held my interest. The story's second half relates what happened decades before in Utah to set this determined man on his murderous path. In the first half of the tale, Holmes tracks down and apprehends a murderer bent on chilling revenge. Sherlock Holmes ("You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive") as well as the brilliant Holmes's methods of observation and deduction.
(His American accents in the story's second half, however, were sometimes painfully awkward.) "A Study in Scarlet" introduces the famous partnership of Dr. When I found a set on Audible narrated by the wonderful British stage actor Derek Jacobi, I could not resist downloading the first two novellas: "A Study in Scarlet" and "The Sign of the Four." I very much enjoyed Jacobi's characterizations, especially of Holmes, Watson and the befuddled Scotland Yard inspectors, Gregson and Lestrade. "That's the result of all our study in scarlet: to get them a testimonial!" I've long wanted to experience all of the Sherlock Holmes stories in publication order. He is also a well known movie actor.The result of all our study in scarlet. He can be heard on the Westwood One Radio Network and has written and produced over seven hundred original spoken-word albums and video documentaries on various aspects of popular culture. 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."Produced by Devin LawerenceEdited by Macc KayProduction executive Avalon GiulianoICON Intern Eden GiulianoMusic By AudioNautix With Their Kind Permission©2020 Eden Garret Giuliano (P) Eden Garret GiulianoGeoffrey Giuliano is the author of over thirty internationally bestselling biographies, including the London Sunday Times bestseller Blackbird: The Life and Times of Paul McCartney and Dark Horse: The Private Life of George Harrison. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in popular fiction. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr.
A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle.
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