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2 unusual facts about A Study In Scarlet


The House of Silk

This mention of Dupin is in itself a reference to a reference made by Conan Doyle to the character in the first Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet.

Trichinopoly cigar

In Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet (1887), Sherlock Holmes correctly deduces that the perpetuator of a gruesome murder had smoked a "Trichinopoly cigar".


Anti-Mormonism

Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet (1889), the novel in which the famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance, includes a very negative depiction of the early Mormon community in Utah after its migration westwards and the foundation of Salt Lake City.

Economy of Tiruchirappalli

The characteristics of the ashes produced by the fabled Trichinopoly are described by Arthur Conan Doyle's fictitious detective Sherlock Holmes in his 1887 novel A Study in Scarlet.

Shane Rimmer

In 1989, Rimmer was reunited with Bishop and another Gerry Anderson associate, Matt Zimmerman, during the production of a BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study In Scarlet.


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