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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…
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The Adventure of the Empty House - (2)
“Do you know where we are?” he whispered. “Surely that is Baker Street,” I answered, staring through the dim window. “Exactly. We are in Ca…
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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…
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The Adventure of the Norwood Builder - (2)
Holmes had picked up the pages which formed the rough draft of the will, and was looking at them with the keenest interest upon his face. “…
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The Adventure of the Norwood Builder - (3)
“You certainly have the air of something unusual having occurred,” said Holmes. Lestrade laughed loudly. “You don’t like being beaten any m…
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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…
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The Adventure of the Dancing Men - (2)
“I daresay you are right. But if you could have stopped, I might possibly have been able to return with you in a day or two. Meanwhile you…
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The Adventure of the Dancing Men - (3)
“I think, Inspector,” Holmes remarked, “that you would do well to telegraph for an escort, as, if my calculations prove to be correct, you…
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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…
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The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist - (2)
The Thursday brought us another letter from our client. You will not be surprised, Mr. Holmes (said she), to hear that I am leaving Mr. Car…
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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…
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The Adventure of the Priory School - (2)
“Exactly.” “By a singular and happy chance, we are able to some extent to check what passed along this road during the night in question. A…
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The Adventure of the Priory School - (3)
“I am convinced,” said I, “that this Reuben Hayes knows all about it. A more self-evident villain I never saw.” “Oh! he impressed you in th…
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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…
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The Adventure of Black Peter - (2)
Half-past two had chimed, and it was the darkest hour which precedes the dawn, when we all started as a low but sharp click came from the d…
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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…
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The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton - (2)
With our black silk face-coverings, which turned us into two of the most truculent figures in London, we stole up to the silent, gloomy hou…
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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…
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The Adventure of the Six Napoleons - (2)
“I could tell you roughly by the pay-list,” the manager answered. “Yes,” he continued, after some turning over of pages, “he was paid last…
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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…
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The Adventure of the Three Students - (2)
“Yes, sir. Such a thing has never happened during the many years that I have been here. I nearly fainted, sir.” “So I understand. Where wer…
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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…
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The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez - (2)
“No, sir, it is impossible. Before I got down the stair, I’d have seen anyone in the passage. Besides, the door never opened, or I would ha…
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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…
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The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter - (2)
“I have heard your name, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, and I am aware of your profession—one of which I by no means approve.” “In that, Doctor, you…
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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…
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The Adventure of the Abbey Grange - (2)
“Their cumulative effect is certainly considerable, and yet each of them is quite possible in itself. The most unusual thing of all, as it…
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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…
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The Adventure of the Second Stain - (2)
“But now the official police must know all.” “Not at all. They know all they see at Godolphin Street. They know—and shall know—nothing of W…
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The Adventure of the Second Stain - (3)
“By George, if he knows I’ll have it out of him!” cried Lestrade. He darted into the hall, and a few moments later his bullying voice sound…