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A Study In Scarlet


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Conan Doyle, Ian Edginton & I.N.J. Culbard

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Page 45 Review by Jonathan

"What ineffable twaddle! I never read such rubbish in my life. The writer claims by a twitch of a muscle, or a glance of the eye, to fathom a man's innermost thoughts! Deceit, according to him, is impossible to one trained in such observation and analysis! It's evidently the theory of some armchair lounger who evolves these neat little paradoxes in the seclusion of his study! I'd like to see him in a third-class carriage in the underground and give the trades of his fellow travellers. I'd lay a thousand to one against him!"
"You would lose your money. I wrote the article myself. I have a trade of my own... I suppose I am the only one in the world, I am a consulting detective."

This is the second Sherlock Holmes adaptation from Edginton and Culbard, and it's another masterfully jumbled jigsaw puzzle of investigative theatre laid out on the table for us to bemusedly grapple with.

A STUDY IN SCARLET features the story of how Holmes and Watson first met and began their firm friendship, set of course against the background of a rather puzzling double-murder. Well, puzzling to everyone except Holmes who with his usual trademark arrogance and love of a good denouement strings everybody along, including the Scotland Yard detectives with their own errant theories, to the point where they are virtually threatening to arrest him if he doesn't tell them whodunit. He, of course, goes one better, contriving a dramatic arrest of the culprit in a manner worthy of the master detective.

Brilliant adaptation from Edginton and Culbard which perfectly captures the sneering arrogance and in turn bewildered astonishment of the younger Holmes and Watson.
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