sir arthur conan doyle short biography

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Ngày tải lên: 29/08/2013, 17:10

... you see them, of 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 ... drove to a spot at the other side of Hammersmith Bridge. Here the cabman was directed to wait. A short walk brought us to a secluded road fringed with pleasant houses, each standing in its own ... trousers, 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,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 01:15

... messengers." "He wished to return with me." THE ADVENTURE OF THE DYING DETECTIVE ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (2) I gave Holmes's remarks as a consecutive whole and will not attempt to ... are now doing time." "It was on account of your special knowledge that Mr. Holmes desired to see you. He has a high opinion of you and thought that you were the one man in London ... Below, as I stood whistling for a cab, a man came on me through the fog. "How is Mr. Holmes, sir? " he asked. It was an old acquaintance, Inspector Morton, of Scotland Yard, dressed in...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 20:15

... at Simpson's would not be out of place." THE ADVENTURE OF THE DYING DETECTIVE ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (3) From the hiding-place into which I had been so swiftly hustled I heard the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 20:15

... on the morning 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 ... face, and, observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed to surprise her." pretended journeys to France ... is from you, in which you made an appointment with me for six o'clock?" "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not quite my own master, you know. I am sorry...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 02:15

... "To ruin 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 ... with my 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 ... upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of the...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 02:15

... and individual acts of heroism. As Sir Nigel Loring, in Doyle s The White Company and the post-Boer- War Sir Nigel, was always seeking a worthy opponent, so Doyle continu- ously constructed the ... famine. () This was a charge to which Arthur Conan Doyle would respond quite strongly when Stead reiterated it in Methods of Barbarism. In his response, Doyle conflated the charge of rape with ... radical journalist W. T. Stead, and a pro-war propa- gandist, popular fiction writer Arthur Conan Doyle. Stead and Doyle use the notion of chivalry as a key trope for the discussion of the ethics of...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... you." "But what is it you wish?" THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A Scandal in Bohemia II. At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, ... Baker Street, but Holmes had not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down beside the fire, however, with the ... twopence, a glass of half and half, two fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in the neighborhood in whom...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15

... Majesty's business to a more successful conclusion." "On the contrary, my dear sir, " cried the King; "nothing could be more successful. I know that her word is inviolate....

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15