A Study in Scarlet (AmazonClassics Edition) -

Arthur Conan Doyle

Amazon

2018

143 páginas

4h 46m

ISBN-10: B0769Z85G1

Arthur Conan Doyle's Study in Scarlet is the first published story involving the legendary Sherlock Holmes, arguably the world's best-known detective, and the first narrative by Holmes's Boswell, the unassuming Dr. Watson, a military surgeon lately returned from the Afghan War. Watson needs a flat-mate and a diversion. Holmes needs a foil. And thus a great literary collaboration begins.
Watson and Holmes move to a now-famous address, 221B Baker Street, where Watson is introduced to Holmes's eccentricities as well as his uncanny ability to deduce information about his fellow beings. Somewhat shaken by Holmes's egotism, Watson is nonetheless dazzled by his seemingly magical ability to provide detailed information about a man glimpsed once under the streetlamp across the road.

Then murder. Facing a deserted house, a twisted corpse with no wounds, a mysterious phrase drawn in blood on the wall, and the buffoons of Scotland Yard--Lestrade and Gregson--Holmes measures, observes, picks up a pinch of this and a pinch of that, and generally baffles his faithful Watson. Later, Holmes explains: "In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward.... There are few people who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result." Holmes is in that elite group.

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5 (Perfeito)

Segunda vez que leio "Um estudo em vermelho" e novamente termino a história com uma ótima sensação de deleite e admiração pela história e pelo autor da mesma.
Gosto muito de como os personagens são introduzidos nesse livro, é um ótimo início pra quem deseja começar a leitura desses clássicos que são as histórias de SH.
E não tem como, sempre é (e sempre vai ser) uma experiência incrível ler Sherlock Holmes.