The Return of Sherlock Holmes

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The Adventure of the Empty House (1)
It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable R…
The Adventure of the Empty House (2)
“I had only one confidant—my brother Mycroft. I owe you many apologies, my dear Watson, but it was all-important that it should be thought…
The Adventure of the Empty House (3)
“The man that the whole force has been seeking in vain—Colonel Sebastian Moran, who shot the Honourable Ronald Adair with an expanding bull…
The Adventure of the Norwood Builder (1)
“From the point of view of the criminal expert,” said Mr. Sherlock Holmes, “London has become a singularly uninteresting city since the dea…
The Adventure of the Norwood Builder (2)
“It strikes me, my good Lestrade, as being just a trifle too obvious,” said Holmes. “You do not add imagination to your other great qualiti…
The Adventure of the Norwood Builder (3)
“I understood that you were writing a report of this case,” said he. “So I am.” “Don’t you think it may be a little premature? I can’t help…
The Adventure of the Dancing Men (1)
Holmes had been seated for some hours in silence with his long, thin back curved over a chemical vessel in which he was brewing a particula…
The Adventure of the Dancing Men (2)
“Then we shall breakfast early and take the very first in the morning,” said Holmes. “Our presence is most urgently needed. Ah! here is our…
The Adventure of the Dancing Men (3)
“Even now I was in considerable difficulty, but a happy thought put me in possession of several other letters. It occurred to me that if th…
The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist (1)
From the years 1894 to 1901 inclusive, Mr. Sherlock Holmes was a very busy man. It is safe to say that there was no public case of any diff…
The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist (2)
“I am sure that you will respect my confidence, Mr. Holmes, when I tell you that my place here has become difficult, owing to the fact that…
The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist (3)
“It strikes me, Williamson, there isn’t very much that we can tell this gentleman,” cried Carruthers, with a bitter laugh. “Yes, we quarrel…
The Adventure of the Priory School (1)
We have had some dramatic entrances and exits upon our small stage at Baker Street, but I cannot recollect anything more sudden and startli…
The Adventure of the Priory School (2)
The boy’s chamber was carefully examined, and yielded nothing save the absolute conviction that it was only through the window that he coul…
The Adventure of the Priory School (3)
“Now, Watson, make an effort, throw your mind back. Can you see those tracks upon the path?” “Yes, I can.” “Can you recall that the tracks…
The Adventure of the Priory School (4)
“I will,” said Holmes. “In the first place, your Grace, I am bound to tell you that you have placed yourself in a most serious position in…
The Adventure of Black Peter (1)
I have never known my friend to be in better form, both mental and physical, than in the year ’95. His increasing fame had brought with it…
The Adventure of Black Peter (2)
“So I should say. It will be our fault if we are not there to receive him. Meanwhile, let me see the inside of the cabin.” The traces of th…
The Adventure of Black Peter (3)
“I’ll tell it you from the beginning. Just sit me up a little, so as I can speak easy. It was in ’83 that it happened—August of that year.…
The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton (1)
It is years since the incidents of which I speak took place, and yet it is with diffidence that I allude to them. For a long time, even wit…
The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton (2)
The place was locked, but Holmes removed a circle of glass and turned the key from the inside. An instant afterwards he had closed the door…
The Adventure of the Six Napoleons (1)
It was no very unusual thing for Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, to look in upon us of an evening, and his visits were welcome to Sherlock…
The Adventure of the Six Napoleons (2)
“Well, that’s all we could reasonably expect from Morse Hudson,” said Holmes, as we emerged from the shop. “We have this Beppo as a common…
The Adventure of the Six Napoleons (3)
Lestrade and I sat silent for a moment, and then, with a spontaneous impulse, we both broke at clapping, as at the well-wrought crisis of a…
The Adventure of the Three Students (1)
It was in the year ’95 that a combination of events, into which I need not enter, caused Mr. Sherlock Holmes and myself to spend some weeks…
The Adventure of the Three Students (2)
“No names, please!” said Holmes, as we knocked at Gilchrist’s door. A tall, flaxen-haired, slim young fellow opened it, and made us welcome…
The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez (1)
When I look at the three massive manuscript volumes which contain our work for the year 1894, I confess that it is very difficult for me, o…
The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez (2)
The gale had blown itself out next day, but it was a bitter morning when we started upon our journey. We saw the cold winter sun rise over…
The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez (3)
“Yes, sir, I am your prisoner,” she said. “From where I stood I could hear everything, and I know that you have learned the truth. I confes…
The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter (1)
We were fairly accustomed to receive weird telegrams at Baker Street, but I have a particular recollection of one which reached us on a glo…
The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter (2)
“Tell me,” I asked, as we rattled up Gray’s Inn Road, “have you any suspicion yet as to the cause of the disappearance? I don’t think that…
The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter (3)
He opened the door, and we stepped into the hall. The droning sound swelled louder upon our ears until it became one long, deep wail of dis…
The Adventure of the Abbey Grange (1)
It was on a bitterly cold and frosty morning, towards the end of the winter of ’97, that I was awakened by a tugging at my shoulder. It was…
The Adventure of the Abbey Grange (2)
A change had come over Holmes’s manner. He had lost his listless expression, and again I saw an alert light of interest in his keen, deep-s…
The Adventure of the Abbey Grange (3)
“A very sensible reply, Watson. You must look at it this way: what I know is unofficial, what he knows is official. I have the right to pri…
The Adventure of the Second Stain (1)
I had intended “The Adventure of the Abbey Grange” to be the last of those exploits of my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, which I should ever…
The Adventure of the Second Stain (2)
A moment later our modest apartment, already so distinguished that morning, was further honoured by the entrance of the most lovely woman i…
The Adventure of the Second Stain (3)
“It’s a lesson to you that you can’t deceive me, Constable MacPherson,” said Lestrade, with dignity. “No doubt you thought that your breach…