A Study in Scarlet was the original Sherlock Holmes story, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in England in 1887. The story is divided into two parts. Part One ends with the case solved and the murderer caught in London; however, the first three chapters of Part Two mysteriously transport the audience decades into the past in Utah. This sudden change reveals that solving the facts of a mystery does not necessarily mean understanding the reasons behind them. Although Holmes bel

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