... 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,...
... messengers." "He wished to return with me." THE ADVENTURE OF THE DYING DETECTIVE ARTHUR CONANDOYLE (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...
... Simpson's would not be out of place." THE ADVENTURE OF THE DYING DETECTIVE ARTHUR CONANDOYLE (3) From the hiding-place into which I had been so swiftly hustled I heard the...
... on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman named THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONANDOYLE 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...
... "To ruin me." "But how?" THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONANDOYLE 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...
... 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 ArthurConanDoyle would respond quitestrongly 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 ArthurConan Doyle. Stead and Doyle use the notion of chivalry as a key trope for the discussion of the ethicsof...
... you." "But what is it you wish?" THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONANDOYLE 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...
... 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....
... this fashion: THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE IS DISSOLVED. THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONANDOYLE The Red-headed League I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day ... There's no vice in him." "He is still with you, I presume?" "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple cooking and keeps the place clean that's ... that's all I have in the house, for I am a widower 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....
... to think, with me, that something had happened, and THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONANDOYLE A CASE OF IDENTITY "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat ... own opinion is, then, that some unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he would not have talked so. And then I think ... "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 so. Why, all the morning he was saying to me that, whatever...
... parted, a pink flush upon her cheeks, all thought of her THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONANDOYLE THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY (2) Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, ... then had. Having measured these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed the winding track which led to ... anything so outre as a dying reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what this young man says is true, and...
... lame." "But his left-handedness." THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONANDOYLE THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY (3) Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot ... ground, as is all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, ... out. "I pray that we may never be exposed to such a temptation." "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" "What of the rat, then?" Sherlock Holmes...
... come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONANDOYLE The Five Orange Pips When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock ... 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 gale from without seemed to blend with the text, and the splash ... of those which come to me are. I am the last court of appeal." "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable...