sir arthur conan doyle first sherlock holmes book

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 06:20

... course, in the inverse order to the way THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAY DOYLE The Adventure of the Six Napoleons (3) Holmes spent the evening in rummaging among the files of ... presented himself. "Mr. Josiah Brown, I suppose?" said Holmes. "Yes, sir; and you, no doubt, are Mr. Sherlock Holmes? I had the note which you sent by the express messenger, ... upon the table. "Is Mr. Sherlock Holmes here?" My friend bowed and smiled. "Mr. Sandeford, of Reading, I suppose?" said he. "Yes, sir, I fear that I am a little...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 01:15

... of the fourteenth, a gentleman named THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A CASE OF IDENTITY (cont) Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips still ... impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you observe, this ... something of his assurance while Holmes had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold sneer upon his pale face. "It may be so, or it may not. Mr. Holmes, " said he, "but...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 02:15

... me." "But how?" THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A Scandal in Bohemia I. To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him ... wooing, and with the dark incidents of the Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. His rooms were ... said. which rise up around the man who first finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of society with...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 02:15

... wish?" THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A Scandal in Bohemia II. At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had not yet returned. The ... was searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes. " is capable of having her waylaid and searched. Two attempts of the sort have ... After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are but preventing her from injuring another. Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man who is in need of air. A maid...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15

... more highly," said Holmes. "You have but to name it." was dated at midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: My Dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, You really did it ... with a sardonic eye as we stepped from the brougham. "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. "I am Mr. Holmes, " answered my companion, looking at her with a questioning ... a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the cleverness of women,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15

... RED-HEADED LEAGUE IS DISSOLVED. THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The Red-headed League I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year ... youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter assistant, Mr. Holmes; and ... never had any family. We live very quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement....

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15

... something had happened, and THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A CASE OF IDENTITY "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire ... passion. Mother was all in his favor from the first "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said Holmes. "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me ... will just show you how fond he was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think of." "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom of mine...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 14:15

... less than the time stated I was in a cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt figure made even gaunter and taller ... that." "How on earth " suspicious remark." "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I can at present see in the clouds. However innocent ... it does so here." "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness which characterizes...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 14:15

... lips parted, a pink flush upon her cheeks, all thought of her THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY (2) Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of ... anyone who really knows him." "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." "But you have read ... me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 14:15

... "But his left-handedness." THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY (3) Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent ... you," said Holmes as the old man signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we may never be exposed to such a temptation." "I pray not, sir. And what do ... pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" "What of the rat, then?" Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened it out on the table. "This is...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 14:15