Book by Arthur Conan Doyle
It starts with a corpse and a word written in blood. Dr. John Watson, wounded in Afghanistan, returns to London broken and adrift. A mutual friend introduces him to a man who needs a flatmate. That man is Sherlock Holmes, and he is already infamous at Scotland Yard for knowing things he should not know. Their first case arrives immediately. A body in a derelict house. No wounds. A word scrawled on the wall: RACHE. Holmes moves through the crime …
It starts with a king, a photograph, and a woman who outsmarts the great detective himself. This collection of twelve stories opens with "A Scandal in Bohemia," where Holmes meets Irene Adler the only woman who ever beat him. She is not a villain. She is not a love interest. She is simply better than him at one thing, and Holmes carries her memory like a medal. The stories that follow are the foundation of the Holmes legend. A red-headed …