THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

... like the strong smell of the Indian cigars that her father smoked They locked themselves in their rooms because their father kept a baboon and a cheetah on the grounds Helen heard a whistle and the ... layer of dirt all over the floor of the hydraulic press Mr Ferguson tried to help Mr Hatherley escape from the house The only way to escape was to jump out the window Mr...

Ngày tải lên: 20/03/2014, 15:53

... accused of this theft on the basis of the statement of James Ryder, the upper-attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan There is a reward for a person who finds and returns it.” So the mysterious hat then ... solved the whole mystery The marriage of each of the daughters would mean that the money they had would be split between them, and the money left for the Doctor...

Ngày tải lên: 20/03/2014, 15:53

... account of his doings: of his summons to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, and finally of the mission which ... Classics Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 15 “G” with a small “t” woven into the texture of the paper “What you make of that?” asked Holmes The name o...

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2015, 18:00

Ngày tải lên: 27/10/2014, 17:46

... connected chain of inductive reasoning, to trace it from the Prince of Colonna's bedroom at the Dacre Hotel, where it was lost, to the interior of this, the last of the six busts of Napoleon which ... files of the paper, and I find that the disappearance of the pearl was exactly two days before the arrest of Beppo, for some crime of violence an event which took place in the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 01:15

... identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary Sutherland A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at the bedside of ... had I known him to fail, in the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of 'The Sign of Four', and the e...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 02:15

... account of his doings: of his summons to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, and finally of the mission which ... know her, but she has a soul of steel She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and the mind of the most resolute of men Rather than I should...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 02:15

... but a good deal of him He is dark, handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and often twice He is a Mr Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple See the advantages of a cabman as a ... his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of the buckles It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall door and into it I only caught a glimpse of her at the mom...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15

... stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his chambers And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr Sherlock Holmes were beaten ... over the cleverness of women, but I have not heard him it of late And when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her photograph, it is always under the honorable title of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15

... little square of card-board hammered on to the middle of the panel with a tack Here it is, and you can read for yourself." He held up a piece of white card-board about the size of a sheet of notepaper ... instead of my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting my foot over the door-mat In that way I didn't know much of what was going on outside, and I was alwa...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15

... commonplace." I smiled and shook my head "I can quite understand your thinking so." I said "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout ... occur to the imagination of the average story-teller Take a pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example." He held out his snuffbox of old...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 14:15

... with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the edge A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the woods picking ... seems, upon terms of perfect equality, as they were frequently together McCarthy had one son, a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same age, but neither of...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 14:15

... think of nothing except of my father Yet I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay upon the ground to the left of me It seemed to me to be something gray in color, a coat of ... cause of quarrel which would give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from his own inner consciousness anything so outre as a dying reference to a rat, and the inciden...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 14:15

... hear of such a case as this that I not think of Baxter's words, and say, 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of ... had been in Australia." "What of the rat, then?" Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened it out on the table "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," h...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 14:15