A Study in Scarlet & The Sign of The Four
All legends begin somewhere, and the two novels here are where one of the world's best-loved legends began. In A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson first meet and investigate a seemingly impossible mystery that begins with a corpse in a deserted house. In The Sign of the Four the detective faces an even greater challenge: solving both the disappearance of Captain Arthur Morstan and the theft of the Agra treasure in India. In this Macmillan Collector's Library edition, Sherlock scholar David Stuart Davies provides both an illuminating afterword and a fascinating chronology of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
Reviews
Victoria Justice@litatori
The first two stories in the Sherlock Holmes collection.
A wonderful introduction to the characters, setting the scene and building up intrigue from the very beginning.
However, I found the criminals confessions rather long-winded, and the deflection to Utah in A Study in Scarlet felt a little void of the overall spark you expect from the series, falling quite dull and flat in places.
Overall a great start to the series and definitely a reflection of his earlier work which laid foundations for the great mastermind we associate with Sherlock Holmes.
Maike Bruls@maike