A Study in Scarlett

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It is a detective story which case is not fully revealed until the last page of the book.

A Study in Scarlett is a book about Dr Watson first meeting with Mr Sherlock Holmes and how Dr Watson get to know this astonishing private detective. The case, which the plot is about, is the start of one of the most famous partnerships in the buisness of murder. When you start reading the book you understand that it is Dr Watson who’s retelling the happenings in the story. The author starts with having Dr Watson describing their meeting and how they come to share the appartment at 22IB. Dr Watson continues to tell us about Sherlock Holmes and his personality. When Watson first founds out that Holmes is a detective the story really begins and the case is a fact. The plot is built up in two parts.

The first one includes Dr Watson and Mr Sherlock Holmes meeting, the introduction, proceeding and solving of the case. The second part is a story about those people whom the case is about, the motive of the murder and so the result of it. In last chapter you can read about how Sherlock Holmes comes to the conclusion of the murder before it is told by the murderer himself. The story takes place in the end of the 19th century. Mostly in London but concerning the case and murder you can read of happenings in America; Utah and Salt Lake City such as all over Europe in small portions.

The main characters is of course Mr Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.
They get introduced to you in the first chapter, which is called: Mr Sherlock Holmes. Dr Watson is here retelling how he came to London in the first place after his time in Afghanistan. Then about the meeting with Holmes and how they come to live in 22IB Baker Street. You get to know Sherlock Holmes in the describing done by Dr Watson and how the detective confound him with his peculiar habits and occupations. Really you can say that Sherlock Holmes represent a round character which thoughts you only can get to know in his explanations of them to Dr Watson and other characters in the book. For example in their first meeting, Holmes already knew that Watson had been in Afghanistan.

How he knew that is not revealed until a few pages afterwards.
This behaviour of Sherlock Holmes is kind of the theme of the book or how to call it; the meaning it and what’s making it so special.
Dr Watson on the other hand is more like a flat ...