"A Study in Scarlet" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I probably read this story in University, when I read the complete Sherlock Holmes, but I definitely don't remember it. In fact, when the story/novel suddenly shifted to Utah and the Mormons, I was puzzled. I thought my version was missing the ending and had suddenly moved on to a bizarre new tale. All of which is to say that this is my least favourite and most boring SHerlock Holmes story, except for the interesting fact that it describes the initial encounter between Holmes and Watson. Also, Doyle spent an awful lot of time describing the Utah landscape, which I presume he never visited.