The Study in Scarlet

"'Dr Watson, Mr Sherlock Holmes,' said Stamford introducing us..." and with these words the world is also introduced for the first time to the great detective and his indefatigable assistant. A Study in Scarlet was published in 1887, the first of Conan Doyle's full-length Holmes novels. It plunges us straight into the dark world of an unsolved murder in Victorian London, which has links to the American West and the Mormons. Holmes displays his powers to solve "the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life." David Timson has performed in modern and classic plays across the country and abroad, including Wild Honey for Alan Ayckbourn, Hamlet, The Man of Mode and The Seagull. He has been seen on TV in Nelson's Column and Swallows and Amazons, and in the film The Russia House. A familiar and versatile audio and radio voice, he reads The Middle Way, eight other volumes of Sherlock Holmes Adventures, and also directs Twelfth Night, Henry V and King Richard III for Naxos AudioBooks.