A Study in Scarlet is the first story to feature Sherlock Holmes. The story opens with Holmes and Watson meeting each other for the first time and involves a complex plot involving service in East India Company, India, the Indian rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts, and two tragic deaths.

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I: Mr. Sherlock Holmes

II: The Science of Deduction

III: The Lauriston Gardens Mystery

IV: What John Rance Had to Tell

V: Our Advertisement Brings a Visitor

VI: Tobias Gregson Shows What He Can Do

VII: Light in the Darkness

Part I: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., Late of the Army Medical Department

I: On the Great Alkali Plain

II: The Flower of Utah

III: John Ferrier Talks with the Prophet

IV: A Flight for Life

V: The Avenging Angels

VI: A Continuation of the Reminiscences of John Watson, M.D.

VII: The Conclusion

Part II: The Country of the Saints

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