A Tangled Skein

Résumé du livre

In a collection of essyas, the Baker Street Irregulars mount an expedition to Salt Lake City to carefully consider the history of the Old West, the Mormons, and the events of the mid-nineteenth century, the setting for the centerpiece of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's, A study in Scarlet. Despite widespread intercourse between America and England in late Victorian times, misconceptions and myth about America persisted in English minds and made their way into the Sherlockian canon. In particular, A study in scarlet depicts evil Mormons forcing Lucy Ferrier into polygamy.