strange facts about sir arthur conan doyle

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... 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 ... Sandeford, of Reading, I suppose?" said he. "Yes, sir, I fear that I am a little late, but the trains were awkward. You wrote to me about a bust that is in my possession." "Exactly." ... 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 ... Watson. That would be obviously impossible. Did he ask what ailed me?" "I told him about the Chinese in the East End." "Exactly! Well, Watson, you have done all that a ... the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I am wondering! Strange how the brain controls the brain! What was I saying, Watson?" "My directions...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 20:15

... 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 ... swear I will. Only cure me, and I'll forget it." "Forget what?" "Well, about Victor Savage's death. You as good as admitted just now that you had done it. I'll ... matters nothing to me that you should know how my nephew died. It's not him we are talking about. It's you." "Yes, yes." "The fellow who came for me I've forgotten...

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 ... 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 that Miss Sutherland has troubled you about this little matter, for ... extraordinary circumstances connected with 'A Study in Scarlet', I felt that it would be a strange tangle indeed which he could not unravel. I left him then, still puffing at his black...

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 ... mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. What do you deduce from it?" I carefully ... Cassel-Felstein, and hereditary King of Bohemia." "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you...

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, ... 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 I ... attempts of the sort have already been made. We may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." "Where, then?" "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that...

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. ... and rushed into the drawing- room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15

... white card-board about the size of a sheet of note- paper. It read in this fashion: THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE IS DISSOLVED. THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The Red-headed ... I would not risk the loss of it. "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and hoped with diligence that ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15

... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A CASE OF IDENTITY "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely stranger ... was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother said she would ... "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...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 14:15

... much as I have been able to gather about the families. Now for the facts. "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at Hatherley about three in the afternoon and ... quietly digesting their breakfasts at home." "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you will find little credit to be gained out of this case." "There ... fact," he answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 14:15

... 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 the deceased, ... enough to tackle facts, Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard to tackle the facts. " ... Oh! I know that he is right. James never did it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because I was concerned...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 14:15

... lame." "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 ... back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, and I shall be with you presently." It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with ... opening the door of our sitting- room, and ushering in a visitor. The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His slow, The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet...

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... come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The Five Orange Pips When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock ... forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such nonsense.' "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full ... Sherlock Holmes cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which present strange and interesting features that it is no easy matter to know which to choose and which to...

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