He comes across as a lethargic, doughy Ray Milland, but altogether serious and free of camp– outside the 5 minutes he spends in a disguise, absolutely gadding about. Reginald Owen, who’d played Watson the previous year in Paramount’s Sherlock Holmes (1932), takes the lead here as Sherlock. Eileen Forrester (Clyde) is a young lady who gets drawn into the society after her father’s murder, and then Anna May Wong pops up as a widow of one of the society men as ostensibly a bigger star than the lead of the film, it’s not hard to piece together Wong’s real role in the murder mystery, even if she’s only in it for less than 10 minutes. The society is led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew (Alan Dinehart), who had been on Holmes’ radar and continues to frustrate his investigation.
However, every time one man dies, the pot gets bigger for the survivors and the incentive to more killing grows. This type of plot would later be, if not perfected, but made most famous by Agatha Christie in And Then There Were None in 1939.įor this version of A Study in Scarlet in particular, here’s the plot: a man found murdered in a locked train car puts Sherlock Holmes (Reginald Owen) onto the trail of a secret society (the “Scarlet Ring” wink wink) that will soon cash out a million dollars worth of stolen jewels. Van Dine mystery novel than a Holmesian adventure in fact, it owes quite a bit to The Bishop Murder Case, another tale of a nursery rhyme-dropping killer who works his way through a hapless group of men. But, for now, I’m much more invested in the BBC Sherlock, and I am happy with experiencing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous stories through a different medium for now.The story that was devised is interesting in that it seems to have a lot more similarities with a early 30s S.S. The first half of the book was definitely pretty fun, and I’m interested in continuing with Sherlock and John’s adventures sometime.
A study in scarlet review series#
Perhaps other books in this series don’t feature flashbacks as much - I personally am not a fan of flashback sequences, and certainly not ones that take up an entire half of the book.Ī Study in Scarlet was not a favorite classic I’ve ever read, but I’m glad to have finally read a Sherlock Holmes mystery. In the very last bit of the book where we go back to the present timeline with Sherlock and John, I was so relieved. The book’s downfall, for me, was its second half, which is a flashback chronicling part of the criminal’s life. I didn’t care about what had happened to him, I just wanted to go back to John and Sherlock! This part of the book was a bore for me, and while I did read it all and digest most of it, it was a big let-down.
A study in scarlet review tv#
The scene where Sherlock makes spot-on deductions about a watch/clock is almost identical between the book and TV show. Obviously, Sherlock is set in present-day London, but it was amazing seeing what the book inspired. It was terrifically fun seeing how the Sherlock episode, “A Study in Pink”, paralleled and built upon the novel’s original story. Holmes helps Scotland Yard solve crimes, and Watson finds himself unexpectedly along for the ride. John Watson getting situated in a London flat with the eccentric Mr. In a way it actually helped that I pictured Arthur Conan Doyle’s characters as Benedict and Martin and the other actors from the show, because it made the story much easier for me to dive into.Ī Study in Scarlet is actually two stories, really. That being said, the book is definitely fun, and well written. Therefore, I knew going into the classic mystery that it just wasn’t going to be able to live up to my incredibly high and unattainable expectations. It’s hilarious, it’s smart, it’s thrilling, it’s executed flawlessly. Sherlock is my absolute favorite show of all time. So deeply and utterly spoiled by the BBC television series Sherlock starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. Their search for the murderer uncovers a story of love and revenge-and heralds a franchise of detective mysteries starring the formidable Holmes. With this investigation begins the partnership of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. The only clues are a wedding ring, a gold watch, a pocket edition of Boccaccio’s Decameron, and a word scrawled in blood on the wall. In the debut of literature’s most famous sleuth, a dead man is discovered in a bloodstained room in Brixton.
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