A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (1887), narrated by David Clarke. An immersive reading edition of the complete, unabridged novel — with word-by-word synchronized text on screen.

A read-along audiobook for English learners, literature students, and anyone who wants to read while listening.

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📊 Reading level: Advanced (C1)

📖 About the book

Follow Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson from a Baker Street sitting-room to a corpse in an empty Lauriston Gardens house, past Inspectors Gregson and Lestrade, into the salt plains of Utah where the case truly began — Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes novel, a London murder and a vendetta carried across continents — with every word highlighted in sync with the narration.

A Study in Scarlet (1887) is the novel that introduced Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to the world. An invalided army surgeon takes rooms at 221B Baker Street with an eccentric consulting detective and is almost at once drawn into the investigation of a body found in an empty house off the Brixton Road — a London mystery that unfolds backward into the Utah desert and a long-deferred act of revenge. The first work of modern detective fiction, and the opening of the most enduring partnership in English literature.

⏱ Chapters
0:00 Title
0:06 Part 1, Chapter 1, Mr. Sherlock Holmes
17:41 Chapter 2, The Science Of Deduction
39:51 Chapter 3, The Lauriston Gardens Mystery
1:03:38 Chapter 4, What John Rance Had To Tell
1:18:43 Chapter 5, Our Advertisement Brings A Visitor
1:34:07 Chapter 6, Tobias Gregson Shows What He Can Do
1:54:38 Chapter 7, Light In The Darkness
2:15:09 Part 2, The Country of the Saints., Chapter 1, On The Great Alkali Plain
2:39:40 Book 2, Chapter 2, The Flower Of Utah
2:56:01 Book 2, Chapter 3, John Ferrier Talks With The Prophet
3:08:19 Book 2, Chapter 4, A Flight For Life
3:29:36 Book 2, Chapter 5, The Avenging Angels
3:52:24 Book 2, Chapter 6, A Continuation Of The Reminiscences Of John Watson, M.D
4:19:38 Part 2, Chapter 7, The Conclusion
4:33:24 End

🎙 Credits

Text: Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/244) — public domain
Narration: David Clarke via LibriVox (https://librivox.org/a-study-in-scarl...) — public domain
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