the adventures of sherlock homes 3 1 4625

... is all perfectly familiar to me There is, of course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady The crudest of writers could invent nothing ... analysis of cause and effect which gives the charm to an investigation The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rul...

Ngày tải lên: 27/08/2016, 20:20

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... 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

... chimney Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until the howl of the ... which was full of forebodings "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is in command of one...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 14:15

... for her at the offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company Now, if you are well up in your London, you will know that the office of the company is in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam ... shortly by the rattle of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 20:15

... fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a small slip of flesh-colored plaster Then with a red head of hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business part of the city, ... introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr Neville St Clair, of Lee, in the county of Kent." Never in my life have I seen such a sight The man's face peeled off under the sponge like the ba...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 20:15

... roughs had also fled at the appearance of Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this battered hat and a most unimpeachable ... upon the lining of this hat, but as there are some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 20:15

... the geese off you?" "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little man "Well, then, ask Mrs Oakshott for it." "She told me to ask you." "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, ... the salesman just now I think that I could be of assistance to you." "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" "My name is Sherlock Holmes It is my business to know wha...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 20:15