I used the guttenberg site to download the original short story to feature the legendary Sherlock Holmes. I had read it many years ago and it was interesting to read again. Conan Doyle was only 27 when he wrote this work in three weeks, while working as a Doctor in Portsmouth Southsea.
The book is both an introduction to the central characters of Holmes and Watson, really their first meeting as well as a description and solving of a crime. It has quite a tirade against the Mormon religion, and one part of the book is devoted to describing the background of the murder over in America.
I imagine that at the time this would have been quite difficult to research and write about, and America must have seemed like an exotic and far away place.
Wikipedia has a good summary of the books' background:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Study_in_Scarlet
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