title: A Study in Scarlet: A Sherlock Holmes Murder Dossier
author:  Arthur Conan Doyle 
description: Book is designed to look like Dr. Watson's 100 year-old scrapbook of case files. You have newspaper clippings, telegrams, hand-written notes, and photographs bound into a book which is held together by a red ribbon. The paper was pre-yellowed to look old (it looks even yellower after 30 years). Dr. Watson supposedly assembled it: It was supposed to look beaten-up and amateurish (even "Like New" copies look this way, somewhat confusing). Some came with four glassine envelopes containing actual clues: a gold wedding ring, a poison pill (eek!), and two calling cards (make sure your copy has all clues intact).
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  # Table Of Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  [Arthur Conan Doyle](The%20Valley%20of%20Fear_split_003.html#filepos2414)
  
  
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  [PART 1: The Tragedy of
  Birlstone](The%20Valley%20of%20Fear_split_003.html#filepos2470)  
  
  
  [Chapter 1. The Warning](The%20Valley%20of%20Fear_split_003.html#filepos2560)  
  
  
  [Chapter 2. Sherlock Holmes
  Discourses](The%20Valley%20of%20Fear_split_003.html#filepos20330)  
  
  
  [Chapter 3. The Tragedy of
  Birlstone](The%20Valley%20of%20Fear_split_003.html#filepos36365)  
  
  
  [Chapter 4. Darkness](The%20Valley%20of%20Fear_split_003.html#filepos55653)  
  
  
  [Chapter 5. The People Of the
  Drama](The%20Valley%20of%20Fear_split_003.html#filepos77383)  
  
  
  [Chapter 6. A Dawning
  Light](The%20Valley%20of%20Fear_split_003.html#filepos100489)  
  
  
  [Chapter 7. The
  Solution](The%20Valley%20of%20Fear_split_004.html#filepos126728)  
  
  
  [PART 2: The Scowrers](The%20Valley%20of%20Fear_split_004.html#filepos158970)  
  
  
  [Chapter 1. The Man](The%20Valley%20o