A Study in ScarletConvalescing in London after a disastrous experience of war in Afghanistan, Dr John Watson finds himself sharing rooms with his enigmatic new acquaintance, Sherlock Holmes. But their quiet bachelor life at 221B Baker Street is soon interrupted by the grisly discovery of a dead man in a grimy, ill omened house in south east London, his face contorted by an expression of horror and hatred such as Watson has never seen before. On the wall, the word