MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! is introducing a new BBC production of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories later this month. The premiere episode on Sunday, October 24th is based on Doyle’s “A Study in Scarlet,” (published in 1887), the story in which readers were first introduced to the character of Sherlock Holmes, a brilliant but eccentric detective — a “reasoning machine” who believed in science above all. In the new MASTERPIECE films airing in October and November, Holmes is re-imagined in contemporary London.

Your patrons may want to read Doyle’s “A Study in Scarlet” and then watch the premiere episode of Sherlock on October 24th. A MASTERPIECE discussion guide for book and film clubs is at here.