Description:
"There's a scarlet thread of murder running through the colorless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."
From the moment Dr. John Watson takes lodgings in Baker Street with the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, he becomes intimately acquainted with the bloody violence and frightening ingenuity of the criminal mind.
In A Study in Scarlet, Holmes and Watson's first mystery, the pair are summoned to a south London house where they find a dead man whose face is a twisted mask of horror. The body is unmarked by violence, but on the wall a mysterious word has been written in blood.
The police are baffled by the crime and its circumstances. But when Sherlock Holmes applies his brilliantly logical mind to the problem, he uncovers a tragic tale of love and deadly revenge.
Brief description:
Marnye Young is an award-winning narrator for New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors. She is a Yale MFA grad, SAG-AFTRA voice stage and screen actor, and has spent her life in the South, Midwest, and North. She has been reviewed for her impeccable comic timing as well as her ability to make others cry and do accents. When she is not narrating she is writing a comical blog about her identical twins, fishing, following NASCAR, volunteering, and of course "mom"ing.
Review Quotes:
"[Holmes] is probably the only literary creation since the creations of Dickens which has really passed into the life and language of the people."
-- "G. K. Chesterton"