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A Scandal in Bohemia - (1)
I. To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predo…
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A Scandal in Bohemia - (2)
“This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the relation between…
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The Red-Headed League - (1)
I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a very stout,…
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The Red-Headed League - (2)
“Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he was a lad.” “Hum!” said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. “He is still w…
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A Case of Identity - (1)
“My dear fellow,” said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, “life is infinitely stranger t…
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A Case of Identity - (2)
“Quite an interesting study, that maiden,” he observed. “I found her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, is rather…
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The Boscombe Valley Mystery - (1)
We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran in this wa…
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The Boscombe Valley Mystery - (2)
It was nearly four o’clock when we at last, after passing through the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, found ou…
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The Boscombe Valley Mystery - (3)
“It has been a case of considerable interest,” he remarked, returning to his natural manner. “I fancy that this grey house on the right mus…
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The Five Orange Pips - (1)
When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes cases between the years ’82 and ’90, I am faced by so many which present str…
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The Five Orange Pips - (2)
“It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than that which…
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The Man with the Twisted Lip - (1)
Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal of the Theological College of St. George’s, was much addicted to opium. The…
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The Man with the Twisted Lip - (2)
“No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the window, there…
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The Man with the Twisted Lip - (3)
“That was it,” said Holmes, nodding approvingly; “I have no doubt of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?” “Many times; but…
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The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - (1)
I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the compliments of t…
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The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - (2)
The man burst into a hearty laugh. “They might be useful to me as relics of my adventure,” said he, “but beyond that I can hardly see what…
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band - (1)
On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Ho…
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band - (2)
“Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of people, perhaps…
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band - (3)
“What’s in here?” he asked, tapping the safe. “My stepfather’s business papers.” “Oh! you have seen inside, then?” “Only once, some years a…
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The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb - (1)
Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, there were…
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The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb - (2)
“Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman was standing…
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The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor - (1)
The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles in which th…
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The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor - (2)
“Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis,” said Holmes, smiling. “And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have nearly all my…
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The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet - (1)
“Holmes,” said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking down the street, “here is a madman coming along. It seems rather sad that…
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The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet - (2)
“‘Arthur!’ I screamed, ‘you villain! you thief! How dare you touch that coronet?’ “The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy bo…
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The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet - (3)
“I think that this should do,” said he, glancing into the glass above the fireplace. “I only wish that you could come with me, Watson, but…
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The Adventure of the Copper Beeches - (1)
“To the man who loves art for its own sake,” remarked Sherlock Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of The Daily Telegraph, “it is…
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The Adventure of the Copper Beeches - (2)
The telegram which we eventually received came late one night just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down to one of t…
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The Adventure of the Copper Beeches - (3)
“‘Ah!’ said he, ‘you must not think me rude if I passed you without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with business matters.’ “…