《福尔摩斯探案全集：血字追踪》以美国摩门教徒的爱情悲剧酿成仇杀为内容，揭露了荒淫罪恶的多妻制，抨击了教会严酷制度对青年人纯真爱情的摧残。小说充满神秘色彩，显露出严密的逻辑推理能力，塑造了一个冷静、智慧与勇气并存的神探福尔摩斯形象，奠定了福尔摩斯全部故事的思想基础和艺术基调——倡导科学与民主，发扬人性，崇尚自由，反对专制和恐怖主义，奠定了作者世界侦探小说大师的地位。( The content of The Complete Novels And Stories of Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet is about revengeful murder of Mormons due to love tragedy, exposing dissolute & evil polygyny, attacking the devastation to pure love of young people caused by the harsh system of the church. The novel is full of mysteries, demonstrating strict logical reasoning ability, forging a calm, intelligent and courageous image of Holmes and laying ideological basis and aesthetic tone of all Holmes stories - advocating science, democracy and humanity, aspiring freedom and opposing dictatorship and terrorism. This book established Holmes as the master of detective novels in the world. )