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The Adventure of the Illustrious Client - (1)
"It can't hurt now," was Mr. Sherlock Holmes's comment when, for the tenth time in as many years, I asked his leave to reveal the following…
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The Adventure of the Illustrious Client - (2)
We found him sure enough, a huge, coarse, red-faced, scorbutic man, with a pair of vivid black eyes which were the only external sign of th…
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The Adventure of the Illustrious Client - (3)
"I am here to be used, Holmes." "Well, then, spend the next twenty-four hours in an intensive study of Chinese pottery." He gave no explana…
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The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier - (1)
The ideas of my friend Watson, though limited, are exceedingly pertinacious. For a long time he has worried me to write an experience of my…
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The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier - (2)
"The old fellow looked diabolical, and I really thought he was about to attack me. I have said that he was a gaunt, fierce old giant, and t…
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The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone - (1)
It was pleasant to Dr. Watson to find himself once more in the untidy room of the first floor in Baker Street which had been the starting-p…
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The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone - (2)
"It's all here, Count. The real facts as to the death of old Mrs. Harold, who left you the Blymer estate, which you so rapidly gambled away…
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The Adventure of the Three Gables - (1)
I don't think that any of my adventures with Mr. Sherlock Holmes opened quite so abruptly, or so dramatically, as that which I associate wi…
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The Adventure of the Three Gables - (2)
I saw no more of Holmes during the day, but I could well imagine how he spent it, for Langdale Pike was his human book of reference upon al…
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The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire - (1)
Holmes had read carefully a note which the last post had brought him. Then, with the dry chuckle which was his nearest approach to a laugh,…
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The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire - (2)
There was one very large central room, into which Ferguson led us. Here, in a huge old-fashioned fireplace with an iron screen behind it da…
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The Adventure of the Three Garridebs - (1)
It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another m…
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The Adventure of the Three Garridebs - (2)
"Nearly five years." Holmes's cross-examination was interrupted by an imperative knocking at the door. No sooner had our client unlatched i…
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The Problem of Thor Bridge - (1)
Somewhere in the vaults of the bank of Cox and Co., at Charing Cross, there is a travel-worn and battered tin dispatch-box with my name, Jo…
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The Problem of Thor Bridge - (2)
"I've been thinking it over, Mr. Holmes, and I feel that I have been hasty in taking your remarks amiss. You are justified in getting down…
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The Problem of Thor Bridge - (3)
"In the excitement of the moment " "No, no, Watson, I will not admit that it is possible. Where a crime is coolly premeditated, then the me…
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The Adventure of the Creeping Man - (1)
Mr. Sherlock Holmes was always of opinion that I should publish the singular facts connected with Professor Presbury, if only to dispel onc…
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The Adventure of the Creeping Man - (2)
He looked at our cards. "Pray sit down, gentlemen. What can I do for you?" Mr. Holmes smiled amiably. "It was the question which I was abou…
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The Adventure of the Lion's Mane - (1)
It is a most singular thing that a problem which was certainly as abstruse and unusual as any which I have faced in my long professional ca…
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The Adventure of the Lion's Mane - (2)
I turned over the paper. "This never came by post. How did you get it?" "I would rather not answer that question. It has really nothing to…
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The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger
When one considers that Mr. Sherlock Holmes was in active practice for twenty-three years, and that during seventeen of these I was allowed…
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The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place - (1)
Sherlock Holmes had been bending for a long time over a low-power microscope. Now he straightened himself up and looked round at me in triu…
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The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place - (2)
"Have you any theory, Holmes?" "Only this, Watson, that something happened a week or so ago which has cut deep into the life of the Shoscom…
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The Adventure of the Retired Colourman - (1)
Sherlock Holmes was in a melancholy and philosophic mood that morning. His alert practical nature was subject to such reactions. "Did you s…
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The Adventure of the Retired Colourman - (2)
"We came," I explained, "in answer to your wire." "My wire! I sent no wire." "I mean the wire which you sent to Mr. Josiah Amberley about h…