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. John H. 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
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