Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meet and take their first case together — a revenge killing whose roots run back to the Mormon frontier of Utah.
Books mentioned in A Study in Scarlet (1)
Monsieur Lecoq by Émile Gaboriau: ““Have you read Gaboriau’s works?” I asked. “Does Lecoq come up to your idea of a detective?””
Books that mention A Study in Scarlet (3)
Destiny Disrupted by Tamim Ansary: “Conan Doyle, for example, uses “Parthian shot” to mean “parting shot” in his 1886 novel A Study in Scarlet.”
The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle: “I even embodied it in a small brochure with the somewhat fantastic title of 'A Study in Scarlet.'”
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu: “My teacher took out a book, The Collected Cases of Sherlock Holmes. He turned to one story— 'A Study in Scarlet,' I think.”