From the Bookshelf of The Literary Nerd Reading Challenge 2014: The Year of Holmes…

A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)

Arthur Conan Doyle

Why we're reading this: It's the first book in the series. Great way to jump in.…more
[close] It's the first book in the series. Great way to jump in.

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Oct 23, 2011 Stephanie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classic, 50-book-2011, british, thrillers, mystery

The only Sherlock Holmes book I've ever read is The Hound of the Baskervilles, I read it, on purpose, in 6th grade after spending many years watching the old black and white version with Basil Rathbone. I was looking forward to reading more Holmes for The Gilmore Girls Reading Challenge, but didn't want to read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (as I knew it wasn't the first book). Then a friend turned me on to this...