by Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930)
 He was born in Edinburg in
Scotland.
 He studied at Edinburgh university.
 He began writing while he was studying
 He worked as a doctor.
 In 1902 he was knighted for services to the UK in Boer War

 In this story Dr. Watson for the first meets
Sherlock Holmes and he recognizes his properities. Dr. Watson has financial problems and looking for a new roommate.
This is of course Sherlock Holmes. In this story they both tries to resolve a mystery about bloody word on the wall Rache …

 His first story about
Sherlock Holmes is A
Study in Scarlet. The novel for the first appeared in a magazine called
Beeton´s Christmas
Annul in 1887.

 Beeton's Christmas Annual was a paperback magazine printed in
England yearly between 1860 and
1898, founded by Samuel Orchart
Beeton. The November 1887 issue contained a novel by Arthur Conan
Doyle entitled A Study in Scarlet[1] which introduced the characters
Sherlock Holmes and his friend
Watson

 First book edition by
Ward , Lock & Co was pusblished in July 1888 with illustrations by
Charles Doyle, father of Arthur Conan
Doyle.

 Ward Lock & Co was a publishing house in the
United Kingdom that started as a partnership and developed until it was eventually absorbed into the publishing combine of Orion
Publishing Group.

 The second edition was published in 1889 with illustrations of George
Hutchinson.
 Then it was published in many other countries.
 1890 in the USA
 In 1905 in the Czech republic

 Next time A Study in
Scarlet appeared in a silent drama movie with the same name.
 The first film version is from
1914 by director
George Pearson starring James
Bragington.

 In 1933 director Edwin
L. Marin filmed again
A Study in Scarlet
 The film starring
Reginald Owen as
Sherlock Holmes and
Anna May Wong as
Mrs. Pyke

 The film has been remaked many times for example in
1968.
 It is an animated adaptation of this novel too.
 The last version is from 2010 as TV series called A Study in
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