a study in scarlet by sir arthur conan doyle

John dies and Lucy is taken to Salt Lake City to be married to Drebber. While Hope is separated from them, the Mormons strike back. She sends word to Hope, who returns in time to help her and her father escape. But while Hope is away, Lucy is told she must marry one of her two attackers. Gold-digger Jefferson Hope comes to her rescue and the pair swiftly fall in love. One day Lucy is attacked by two young Mormon men, Drebber and Stangerson. I’d recommend this book for all fiction readers-unless you’re a Mormon with anger issues, then you might want to just pass.A party of Mormons travelling through the Utah valley rescue John Ferrier and his adopted daughter Lucy. Arthur Conan Doyle wove fascinating tales. There’s a reason Holmes was such a popular character. Though, I found the adventure in Utah to be particularly edge-of-the-seat. It seems like it would be an odd way to tell such a story, in two disparate parts, but both parts of the story are well-told and gripping.

That intrigue is eventually tied up by Holmes at the end of the second part. While she falls for a non-Mormon hunter, the polygamous Mormon’s face a situation in which the demand for wives far outstrips supply. The man and the girl go on to live with the Mormons, if uneasily. The two are the sole survivors of a Donner Party-style ill-fated wagon train through the Rockies. Part II begins with a man and a little girl being rescued by a caravan of Mormons. Part I is as one would expect of a Holmes’ story in setting and characters, the second part is out of the ordinary but none-the-less fascinating. Watson–who becomes Holmes’s roommate and who soon becomes fascinated by the work of the world’s first consulting detective.

Because, it’s the first story, there’s also the meeting of Holmes and Dr. It’s not clear whether the two killings are connected but the two men were associates and so it’s a likely conclusion-though the victims’ manner of death is quite different. The first part of the novel describes a mysterious murder that happens in London and whose victim displays a gruesome death mask. There are actually two stories told in the novel. This is the first book of the Sherlock Holmes canon, and is also the first Holmes novel (most of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories are short stories published in collections.) The book was first published in 1887. Get Speechify to make any book an audiobook

A study in scarlet by sir arthur conan doyle