Arthur Conan Doyle

First published in 1892, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the first and greatest of the short story collections written by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring his famous detective. The twelve Sherlock Holmes adventures included in this anthology: A Scandal in Bohemia, The Adventure of the Red-Headed League, A Case of Identity, The Boscombe Valley Mystery The Five Orange Pips, The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet and The Adventure of the Copper Beeches.

First published in 1892, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the first and greatest of the short story collections written by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring his famous detective. The twelve Sherlock Holmes adventures included in this anthology: A Scandal in Bohemia, The Adventure of the Red-Headed League, A Case of Identity, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Five Orange Pips, The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet and The Adventure of the Copper Beeches.

Ennuy par le manque d'enqu tes, Sherlock Holmes s'adonne la consommation de drogues pour s'occuper, ainsi qu' diverses activit s ennuyeuses, sous le regard de son colocataire, le docteur John Watson. En 1888, une jeune cliente blonde, Mary Morstan, d barque chez Holmes, et lui demande de l'aide. Elle lui explique qu'elle est gouvernante, et que c'est sa patronne qui lui a conseill de venir ici. Watson tombe sous le charme de la jeune femme qui expose son probl me; son p re tait navigateur dans les Indes et est d c d environ dix ans auparavant (disparu le 3 d cembre 1878). Or, elle re oit, depuis six ans, et cycle r gulier, des perles de grande valeur. Et ce m me jour lui est parvenu une enveloppe o un anonyme lui demande de venir un rendez-vous, accompagn e si elle le souhaite, mais pas d'un policier. Holmes accepte de l'aider, et paul de Watson, accompagne Mary au dit rendez-vous. Ils d couvrent sur place que l'anonyme est le fils d'un ancien ami et coll gue du capitaine Morstan. Celui-ci r v le que leurs p res avaient d couvert un tr sor de cinq cent mille livres, mais que ni le tr sor ni les bijoux n'ont t partag s avec la fille de Morstan. L'homme explique enfin que son fr re a d couvert le coffre hier, cach dans leur maison. Mais arriv s sur les lieux, ils constatent la mort du fr re et la disparition du coffre. Holmes et Watson commencent alors un dangereux p riple qui les m nera jusqu' une course poursuite folle sur la Tamise...

A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new characters, "consulting detective" Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler, Dr. John Watson, who later became two of the most famous characters in literature. Conan Doyle wrote the story in 1886, and it was published the following year. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes to Doctor Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": "There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it The story, and its main characters, attracted little public interest when it first appeared. Only 11 complete copies of the magazine in which the story first appeared, Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887, are known to exist now and they have considerable value. 2] Although Conan Doyle wrote 56 short stories featuring private investigator Holmes, A Study in Scarlet is one of only four full-length novels in the original canon. The novel was followed by The Sign of the Four, published in 1890. A Study in Scarlet was the first work of detective fiction to incorporate the magnifying glass as a private investigator tool. As the first Sherlock Holmes story published, A Study in Scarlet was among the first to be adapted to the screen. In 1914, Conan Doyle authorised a silent film be produced by G. B. Samuelson. private investigator Holmes was played by James Bragington, an accountant who worked as an actor for the only time of his life. He was hired for his resemblance to Holmes, as presented in the sketches originally published with the story. 13] As early silent films were made with film that itself was made with poor materials, and film archiving was then rare, it is now a lost film. The success of the film allowed for a second version to be produced that same year by Francis Ford, which has also been lost. The 1933 film entitled A Study in Scarlet, starring Reginald Owen as Sherlock Holmes and Anna May Wong as Mrs Pyke, bears no plot relation to the novel, as the producers had purchased rights to only the title, not the story. (So limited were the purchased rights that the famous Baker Street address is "221A" in the film rather than the renowned "221B.") Aside from Holmes, Watson, Mrs. Hudson, and Inspector Lestrade, the only connections to the Holmes canon are a few lifts of character names (Jabez Wilson, etc.). The plot contains an element of striking resemblance to one used several years later in Agatha Christie's novel And Then There Were None: that of murder victims being counted off by lines from the same nursery rhyme, but the Holmes film takes the precaution of using the phrase "ten little black boys". The book has rarely been adapted in full, but notable instances were an episode broadcast on 23 September 1968 in the second season of the BBC television series Sherlock Holmes, with Peter Cushing as private investigator Holmes and Nigel Stock as Dr. Watson, which put more detail into the story, including the actor who claims the ring; the second episode of the 1979 Soviet TV adaptation, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (the first episode combines the story of their meeting with "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"; the second episode adapts the actual Jefferson Hope case. 16]); a 1983 animated version produced by Burbank Films Australia, with Peter O'Toole voicing Holmes; A Study in Scarlet was the first episode of the BBC's complete Sherlock Holmes on Radio 4 in 1989, dramatised by Bert Coules and starring Clive Merrison as Holmes, Michael Williams as Watson, Donald Gee as Inspector Lestrade, and John Moffatt as Inspector Gregson; 17] and a 2007 episode of the American radio series The Classic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Året var 1887 när Arthur Conan Doyle debuterade som roman­författare. Berättelsen hette En studie i rött och presenterade den konsulterande privatdetektiven Sherlock Holmes och hans följeslagare doktor Watson. Conan Doyle utvecklade sin huvudperson. I första boken hade Sherlock Holmes varit självupptagen och ständigt sökt efter uppmärksamhet. I den nya romanen, som fick titeln De fyras tecken, hade han mognat och blivit några år äldre. Även Conan Doyle hade mognat, det här var en mer genomarbetad roman. Det var snabbläst, modernt och samtida, men ändå ett starkt äventyr av klassiskt slag.– – –Ur Mattias Boströms förord till denna serieadaption av Arthur Conan Doyles klassiker De fyras tecken med mäster­detektiven Sherlock Holmes.