A Study in Scarlet (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- First Published: 1887
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Detective and mystery
- Time of Work: Nineteenth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Nineteenth century, England or English people, Detectives, Mysteries, London, Eccentrics or eccentricities, Private investigators, Intellect, Mormons, Puzzles
- Locales: London, England, West (U.S.)
Places Discussed
*Afghanistan. Southwest Asian country over whose control Great Britain and Russia clashed in the nineteenth century and in which the novel’s narrator, Dr. John Watson, served as a British army physician in the late 1870’s, before the period in which his narrative proper begins. Only a few pages of his narrative discuss Afghanistan directly; however, these passages indicate how powerfully place shapes men. Watson’s time in Afghanistan transformed him. After he was shot, he contracted enteric fever and returned to London almost an invalid, forever marked by...
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