When I was a child I was obsessed with Sherlock Holmes. I found a volume of his cases in the old shelves of my parent's living room and read them one after another enthralled. The one I never read until now was A Study in Scarlet, the first one Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ever wrote. In it you see how Holmes and Watson met and you see the first case they ever work. And you see how Holmes' education was completely focused on skills he needed to solve crimes, and technology he was experimenting with to make crime solving easier (fingerprint collecting and the like). I liked it... but Holmes was so smug, almost obnoxious about how great at solving mysteries he was. And then of course he easily solved this one. Also, a large part of the second half was back story for the crime and I really didn't find it that engrossing. So, indifferent really.
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