Description
John Watson is in London recuperating after being discharged from the army during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, in which he served as a surgeon. Finding it difficult to live on his salary, he moves in with a roommate: an eccentric man named Sherlock Holmes. Watson becomes fascinated by Holmes, a consulting detective with great abilities in deduction who helps people-including the police-with cases they can't solve. Inspector Gregson of Scotland Yard asks Holmes for assistance on a mysterious murder case. Holmes can't resist the case's strange details, and brings Watson with him. When they arrive at the vacant home on Brixton Road where the body was found, Holmes carefully and methodically observes outside the house before going in to see the scene of the crime. Inside, Inspectors Lestrade and Gregson explain the case: An American man named Enoch Drebber was found dead in the middle of the night with no apparent wound. Despite this, there is blood on the floor and the word "RACHE" written on the wall in blood. Drebber was traveling with a secretary named Stangerson, who has not yet been located.
A STUDY IN SCARLET
