![]() ![]() The crime and its solution were put together cleverly and logically, although this is not a fair-play mystery readers can solve for themselves. ![]() Although others have found the shift from Watson's first-person narration to the third-person flashback to be jarring, both narrative threads held my interest. The story's second half relates what happened decades before in Utah to set this determined man on his murderous path. In the first half of the tale, Holmes tracks down and apprehends a murderer bent on chilling revenge. Sherlock Holmes ("You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive") as well as the brilliant Holmes's methods of observation and deduction. ![]() (His American accents in the story's second half, however, were sometimes painfully awkward.) "A Study in Scarlet" introduces the famous partnership of Dr. When I found a set on Audible narrated by the wonderful British stage actor Derek Jacobi, I could not resist downloading the first two novellas: "A Study in Scarlet" and "The Sign of the Four." I very much enjoyed Jacobi's characterizations, especially of Holmes, Watson and the befuddled Scotland Yard inspectors, Gregson and Lestrade. ![]() "That's the result of all our study in scarlet: to get them a testimonial!" I've long wanted to experience all of the Sherlock Holmes stories in publication order. ![]()
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