book cover of 주홍색 연구 by 아서 코난 도일|Ian Edginton

주홍색 연구

Novel, detective fiction by 아서 코난 도일, Ian Edginton

Blurb

《주홍색 연구》 는, 아서 코난 도일의 소설이다. 셜록 홈즈가 나오는 셜록 홈즈 시리즈의 첫 작품이다. 홈즈와 왓슨의 만남과, 그 후에 일어난 살인 사건을 그리고 있다.
이 책이 발간될 당시만 해도, 주홍색 연구의 소설 원고가 여러 출판사에 보내졌으나 모두 거절당했다. 이듬해인 1887년, '비튼의 크리스마스 연간' 특집호에 발표되었으나, 역시 큰 인기를 끌지는 못했다.
이후 1890년, 아서 코난 도일은 주홍색 연구에 이어 네 개의 서명을 발표한다.

First Published

1887

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Tarma

This is my least favorite of the Sherlock Holmes stories, and it's a shame, because it's the beginning of the immortal duo. It would have been nice to see a story focused on the pair, but unfortunately Doyle seems to enjoy intruding on his longer Holmes stories with a completely different story in order to give us the back story of the murderer. This worked okay with Valley of Fear, in which I at least was given the story of a murderer that I liked, but this murderer - good heavens, we are given literally nothing to latch on to here. The story goes on and on about two other characters, who are then both whisked out of the story within pages of each other and never appear again, while the murderer is left to follow his course - with no more background or character given to him than before. Having said that, I still like to re-read it from time to time (and *very* hastily skim the backstory bits) in order to relive the first meeting of Holmes and Watson.

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