His Last Bow

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1. Preface
   The friends of Mr. Sherlock Holmes will be glad to learn that he is still alive and well, though somewhat crippled by occasional attacks of…
2. The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge (1)
   1. The Singular Experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles I find it recorded in my notebook that it was a bleak and windy day towards the end of…
3. The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge (2)
   “That is certainly a possible point of view. On the face of it you must admit, however, that it is very strange that his two servants shoul…
4. The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge (3)
   “We will go back to the note which was handed in to Garcia upon the evening of his death. We may put aside this idea of Baynes’s that Garci…
5. The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge (4)
   “Come, come,” said Baynes cheerily, “I think better of the law than that. Self-defence is one thing. To entice a man in cold blood with the…
6. The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans (1)
   In the third week of November, in the year 1895, a dense yellow fog settled down upon London. From the Monday to the Thursday I doubt wheth…
7. The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans (2)
   “We have had some fresh evidence this morning,” said Lestrade. “A passenger who passed Aldgate in an ordinary Metropolitan train about 11:4…
8. The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans (3)
   Am dining at Goldini’s Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lante…
9. The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot (1)
   In recording from time to time some of the curious experiences and interesting recollections which I associate with my long and intimate fr…
10. The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot (2)
    “It won’t do, Watson!” said he with a laugh. “Let us walk along the cliffs together and search for flint arrows. We are more likely to find…
11. The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot (3)
    He relapsed at once into the half-humorous, half-cynical vein which was his habitual attitude to those about him. “It would be superfluous…
12. The Adventure of the Red Circle (1)
    Part I “Well, Mrs. Warren, I cannot see that you have any particular cause for uneasiness, nor do I understand why I, whose time is of some…
13. The Adventure of the Red Circle (2)
    “Someone is moving in that room,” said Holmes in a whisper, his gaunt and eager face thrust forward to the window-pane. “Yes, I can see his…
14. The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax (1)
    “But why Turkish?” asked Mr. Sherlock Holmes, gazing fixedly at my boots. I was reclining in a cane-backed chair at the moment, and my prot…
15. The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax (2)
    “It shows, my dear Watson, that we are dealing with an exceptionally astute and dangerous man. The Rev. Dr. Shlessinger, missionary from So…
16. The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax (3)
    The authority in Holmes’s voice had its effect upon the bearers. Peters had suddenly vanished into the house, and they obeyed these new ord…
17. The Adventure of the Dying Detective (1)
    Mrs. Hudson, the landlady of Sherlock Holmes, was a long-suffering woman. Not only was her first-floor flat invaded at all hours by throngs…
18. The Adventure of the Dying Detective (2)
    “Very good. I will go alone. I have a note of Mr. Holmes’s address. You can rely upon my being there within half an hour at most.” It was w…
19. His Last Bow: The War Service of Sherlock Holmes (1)
    It was nine o’clock at night upon the second of August—the most terrible August in the history of the world. One might have thought already…
20. His Last Bow: The War Service of Sherlock Holmes (2)
    “The boodle. The reward. The £500. The gunner turned damned nasty at the last, and I had to square him with an extra hundred dollars or it…