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Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet (2005) 4 stars

A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. …

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4 stars

Well no wonder the Sherlock Holmes canon is so popular; this was a super fun read. There is an abrupt turn in the middle where it turns into a completely different book (a western! With mormons!), which is not that bad a story and eventually makes sense as backstory for the mystery, but the unexplained shift is deeply puzzling. None the less: fun!