I kicked off my second re-reading Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories at the beginning with A Study in Scarlet. The story begins with the introduction of John Watson, a discharged army doctor recently wounded while serving in Afghanistan. His need for a flatmate leads him to Sherlock Holmes, the only consulting detective in London and the world. Before long Holmes is summoned to the scene of a horrific crime- an American dead, without a mark on his body, and the word Rache inscribed on the wall above him in blood. Watson is horrified, but this is only the beginning- the events that set this crime in motion began years ago and miles away in the deserts of Mormon Utah. The twists and turns of this Victorian tale are both outrageously strange and addictively clever.