Hope’s arrest leads to the second half of the novella, a third-person narrative concerning the foundation of the Mormon community in Utah. Through the reading of fine details and other investigations, Holmes concludes that the killer is a cab driver, Jefferson Hope. The police misread the word “Rache” written in blood at the crime scene as “Rachel” Holmes reads the clue correctly as German for “revenge.” Drebber’s secretary, Joseph Stangerson, is accused of the murder but is later found murdered. It becomes clear that Holmes is a consulting detective when he is called upon by the police to investigate the murder of Enoch Drebber in an empty house near Brixton. He is introduced to Sherlock Holmes, a man of unusual habits. John Watson, an army doctor who, following the battle of Maiwand, has chosen to settle in London. The story begins with the narration of Dr. Analysis of Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in ScarletĪ detective fiction novella first published by Arthur Conan Doyle in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, and published subsequently as a separate edition by Ward, Lock and Company in 1888, A Study in Scarlet marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes.
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