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by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Full Review on: my Blog ThePunkTheory

After I read The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes last summer, I decided it's time to get started properly with one of the most famous detectives of all time. In A Study in Scarlet Sherlock (who just met Watson for the first time) investigates a rather mysterious murder.
One of the things I really liked about this novel is that we get so find out how Watson and Holmes met and moved in together. It's quite funny how Watson gets acquainted with Holmes' weird habits and tries to make sense of him. But we also get a thorough inside on how Sherlock Holmes works and on how me makes his deductions.
I have to admit, at some point the story began to bore me a bit, but when I watched a theater adaptation a few weeks later, I loved it! A Study in Scarlet is a cleverly written novel, featuring a crime you would never ever be able to solve before Sherlock does.