A Study in Scarlet is one of the most widely read adventure stories ever written. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle introduces us to one of the most popular and studied characters in all of fiction: Sherlock Holmes, the master detective.

Published in hundreds of editions and translated into virtually every modern language, A Study in Scarlet has not been out of print since its initial publication in 1887.

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (1859-1930), one of the greatest Scottish authors, transformed the art of fiction. Author of numerous novels and short stories, including A Study in Scarlet, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Sign of the Four, and The Final Problem, he is considered to be a literary colossus, and a central figure in the development of the modern detective novel.