Sherlock Holmes's First Appearance

From A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

Holmes is introduced in the chemistry laboratory at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where he greets Watson with the famous deductive line about Afghanistan, establishing his method before anything else.

Part I, Chapter 1 ('Mr. Sherlock Holmes')

Holmes's first words to Watson: 'You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.' He has just discovered an infallible reagent for bloodstains, signaling that science and detection are inseparable for him.

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