A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle, 1887.
Before you read: A murder mystery. Better for older children and teens.
Dr. Watson, back from war, needs a room and moves in with a strange young man called Sherlock Holmes. Soon they are investigating a man found dead in an empty house with a word written in red on the wall. This is the first Sherlock Holmes story.
Public-domain text. First published in 1887; Arthur Conan Doyle died in 1930, so this text is in the public domain in the US, Canada, the EU and India. Summary and notes written by ViralScopeHub.