"A Study in Scarlet" - Arthur Conan Doyle

I recently bought The Complete Sherlock Holmes - after I had a taste of the detective over a Stanford alumni serial email. A Study in Scarlett was the first short story/novella in the collection. The writing is a bit dense and tends to go off on seeming tangents...but I did enjoy the introdcution to the famous, albeit arrogant, Holmes. The frustrating part of the mystery is that it is impossible for the reader to solve - meaning that no clues are dropped along the way. As I was reading online about the story, it was pointed out that this mystery "convention" had not yet been invented - and that Doyle was in fact developing the mystery genre as he went. It's very interesting, though at time tiresome, to read Sherlock Holmes - fun to see the genre developing, but frustrating that things we've become so accustomed to seeing in detective fiction are not yet included. I'm excited to keep reading the collection now and again.