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Mr. Sherlock Holmes
Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seat…
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The Curse of the Baskervilles
“I have in my pocket a manuscript,” said Dr. James Mortimer. “I observed it as you entered the room,” said Holmes. “It is an old manuscript…
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The Problem
I confess at these words a shudder passed through me. There was a thrill in the doctor’s voice which showed that he was himself deeply move…
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Sir Henry Baskerville
Our breakfast table was cleared early, and Holmes waited in his dressing-gown for the promised interview. Our clients were punctual to thei…
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The Hound of the Baskervilles - Three Broken Threads - (1)
Sherlock Holmes had, in a very remarkable degree, the power of detaching his mind at will. For two hours the strange business in which we h…
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The Hound of the Baskervilles - Three Broken Threads - (2)
“I will not bias your mind by suggesting theories or suspicions, Watson,” said he; “I wish you simply to report facts in the fullest possib…
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The Hound of the Baskervilles - The Stapletons of Merripit House - (1)
The fresh beauty of the following morning did something to efface from our minds the grim and grey impression which had been left upon both…
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The Hound of the Baskervilles - The Stapletons of Merripit House - (2)
“Halloa!” I cried. “What is that?” A long, low moan, indescribably sad, swept over the moor. It filled the whole air, and yet it was imposs…
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First Report of Dr. Watson
From this point onward I will follow the course of events by transcribing my own letters to Mr. Sherlock Holmes which lie before me on the…
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The Hound of the Baskervilles - The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. Watson] - (1)
Baskerville Hall, Oct. 15th. MY DEAR HOLMES, If I was compelled to leave you without much news during the early days of my mission you must…
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The Hound of the Baskervilles - The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. Watson] - (2)
We had arranged no plan of campaign, but the baronet is a man to whom the most direct way is always the most natural. He walked into the ro…
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Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
So far I have been able to quote from the reports which I have forwarded during these early days to Sherlock Holmes. Now, however, I have a…
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The Man on the Tor
The extract from my private diary which forms the last chapter has brought my narrative up to the eighteenth of October, a time when these…
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The Hound of the Baskervilles - Death on the Moor - (1)
For a moment or two I sat breathless, hardly able to believe my ears. Then my senses and my voice came back to me, while a crushing weight…
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The Hound of the Baskervilles - Death on the Moor - (2)
There was no chance of either of us forgetting that peculiar ruddy tweed suit—the very one which he had worn on the first morning that we h…
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Fixing the Nets
Sir Henry was more pleased than surprised to see Sherlock Holmes, for he had for some days been expecting that recent events would bring hi…
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
One of Sherlock Holmes’s defects—if, indeed, one may call it a defect—was that he was exceedingly loath to communicate his full plans to an…
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A Retrospection
It was the end of November, and Holmes and I sat, upon a raw and foggy night, on either side of a blazing fire in our sitting-room in Baker…