By A. Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A Study in Scarlet and Other Stories
By A. Conan Doyle Volume I P • F • Collier & Son 'Publishers • New York PR
4GZQ 198672 CONTENTS a study' in scarlet Part I. Works of A. Conan Doyle.
Inilah petualangan pertama Sherlock Holmes dan Dokter Watson. Berawal dari sebuah apartemen kecil di Baker Street, mereka kedatangan seorang klien untuk mengungkap kasus pembunuhan misterius. Telah ditemukan sosok mayat yang meninggal tak wajar, tanpa ada barang bukti pembunuhan. Sherlock Holmes dengan sigap mencoba mengurai semuanya. Melacak jejak pelaku, bukti-bukti yang ada di sekitar kejadian, juga motif pembunuhan. Bagaimana cara sang detektif ulung ini melakukan pekerjaannya? Juga apa reaksi Dokter Watson saat mengikuti Sherlock di kasus pertama ini? *** Sherlock Holmes Begins: A Study in Scarlet menceritakan segala mula petualangan duet dari Sherlock Holmes dan Dokter Watson. Pengenalan kedua karakter tersebut dibeberkan dengan detail, juga tentang alur dan motif kejadian pembunuhan yang sedang ditangani mereka. Tak ada yang mustahil untuk diungkap oleh seorang Sherlock Holmes. -Bukune-
Juga apa reaksi Dokter Watson saat mengikuti Sherlock di kasus pertama ini? *** Sherlock Holmes Begins: A Study in Scarlet menceritakan segala mula petualangan duet dari Sherlock Holmes dan Dokter Watson.
From that day these outrages have never ceased, until now they have reached a
pitch which makes us the opprobrium of the civilized world. Is it for such results as
this that our great country welcomes to its bosom the alien who flies from the
despotisms of Europe? Is it that they shall themselves become tyrants over the
very men who have given them shelter, and that a state of terrorism and
lawlessness should be established under the very shadow of the sacred folds of
the starry Flag ...
I have no doubt that what she heard was the report of the gun, and that this was
the real instant of the murder. If this is so, we have now to determine what Mr
Barker and Mrs Douglas, presuming that they are not the actual murderers, could
have been doing from a quarter to eleven, when the sound of the gun-shot
brought them down, until a quarter past eleven, when they rang the bell and
summoned the servants. What were they doing, and why did they not instantly
give the alarm?