Sherlock Holmes - A Study in Scarlet

"You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive." Thus for the first time are Dr.Watson and the world introduced to-and astonished by-Mr. Sherlock Holmes. "Well, I have a trade of my own" Holmes explains. "I suppose I am the only one in the world. I'm a consulting detective. Here in London we have lots of government detectives and lots of private ones.When these fellows are at fault, they come to me, and I manage to put them on the right scent. No man lives or has lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime as I have done." No sooner areWatson and Holmes set up in their new, shared lodgings at 221B Baker Street than they are asked by Scotland Yard to step around to a house off Brixton Road. There had been a bad business during the night, and the body of Enoch J. Drebber, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A., had been found inthe vacant house. There were gouts of bloods all over the room. Across the wall in blood-red letters, a single word was scrawled-Rache. "If this man was murdered, how was it done?" asked Inspector Lestrade. "Poison" Holmes said curtly. "Come, Watson. The game is afoot."