Sherlock: A Study in Pink (manga, Titan, 2017)
The first BBC episode, drawn as manga and read right to left.
An adaptation of an adaptation, and proof that the modern version holds up as a page-turner.
You loved the series, you read manga, and you would like to go back to the first case on paper.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: Steven Moffat’s first episode, with the chapters as first serialized in Japan.
Changes: the medium. Titan prints it in the original right-to-left reading order, art by Jay.
Whose story is it?
the same as the series: Holmes’s, as Watson meets him.
How much time does it ask?
224 pages.
Titan Manga, 28 February 2017 — series creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, art by Jay.
Where to find it
Buy the paperback — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Paperback — Amazon · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
More versions: The Complete Novels and Stories, Bantam Classics (two volumes) · The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Oxford World’s Classics (2025) · The Hound of the Baskervilles, Oxford World’s Classics (2023)