the red headed league by sir arthur conan doyle

... of these cases have peculiarities of their own In two of them the figures of the dead lads have appeared beside the mothers in a photograph In one case the first message to the mother came 36 The ... formed the psychic circle when the dead was restored to life, and were presumably the most helpful of the group) were taken Then there is the choice of the high pure air of the mountain, the drowsiness ... deeds have placed them there, but also with the hope that expiation and the help of those above them will educate them and bring them level with the others In this saving process the higher spirits...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 06:20

... sỹ Grimesby Roylott - người xà ích đáp - Ngài đỡ thời hơn, theo lối đường tắt băng qua đồng Chỗ có tiểu thư - Theo cô Stoner -Holmes đoán Chúng xuống xe, trả tiền, xe ngựa lại quay Leatherhead ... thôi, họ chờ Chúng đặt chân xuống khúc đường vốn tập nập mà vừa tới hồi sáng Theo chân Merryweather, ba băng qua hẻm hẹp, theo cánh cửa hông mở sẵn để đón chúng tôi, vào nhà Bên cánh cửa dải hành ... biết ông Jones, đằng Scotland Yard? Vậy xin giới thiệu với anh: ông Merryweather, cộng phiêu lưu tối Với ông, ông Meryweather, tiền đặt cọc cho chơi tối ba mươi ngàn bảng Còn với ông, ông Jones,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2016, 08:15

... điểm anh nào? - Theo Blessington tự tử sợ hãi Ông ta ngủ say giường, ông nhìn này: dấu vết thân thể lún sâu Ông ta treo cổ vào lúc năm sáng Dường hành động hoàn toàn cố ý - Cứ xét theo cứng đờ chết ... động Từ nơi lầu vọng xuống tiếng rên rỉ nhỏ, nghẹn Holmes vội leo lên, viên tra bám theo bén gót, anh Mycroft đuổi theo Lên tới thềm cầu thang lầu hai, thấy có ba cánh cửa: tiếng kêu xé ruột phát ... cho 3/4 tiền thu được, ông hưởng 1/4 lại Tôi nhận lời, tới ngụ đường Brook bắt đầu hành nghề, làm theo điều kiện mà ông ta đưa Ông ta tới nhà người khách trọ hưởng bổng lộc Tôi nhận thấy ông ta...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2016, 08:15

... Tôi theo sát anh bước chân suốt tiến trình điều tra vụ Vì vậy, chưa thể biết rõ mục tiêu cuối theo đuổi, hiểu mười mươi Holmes hy vọng tóm tên tội phạm cố tìm cách đoạt hai tượng lại, mà một, theo ... hồ để khám xét cẩn thận thứ Tôi ngồi xuống ghế kê góc phòng, hệt sinh viên chăm theo dõi thầy giáo thao diễn, cố theo sát bước tiến trình khám phá thú vị Khung cửa sổ, rèm, thảm, ghế, sợi dây ... lời đáp thật tế nhị Watson, anh phải nhìn việc theo cách sau đây: biết mang tính chất riêng tư, ông ta biết lại chuyện công vụ Tôi có quyền phán đoán theo cách riêng tôi; ông ta Chương - Cuộc phiêu...

Ngày tải lên: 09/04/2016, 19:23

... the counting-house of the African traders On the afternoon of which we speak things were quiet at the offices The line of pigeon-holes in the wire curtain was deserted by the public, though the ... together, had roughed it together, risen together, and prospered together When John Girdlestone was a raw-boned lad and Harston a chubby-faced urchin, the latter had come to look upon the other ... entered He was so tall that he towered above the younger man, but the latter's square and compact frame made him, apart from the difference of age, the stronger man The young man had dropped the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 17:20

... outline upon the luminous screen of the window There was no mistaking the poise of the head, the squareness of the shoulders, the sharpness of the features The face was turned half-round, and the effect ... women were positive upon the point They had at once sent for the doctor and for the constable Then, with the aid of the groom and the stable-boy, they had conveyed their injured mistress to her room ... spent the morning raking among the ashes of the burned wood-pile, and besides the charred organic remains they had secured several discoloured metal discs I examined them with care, and there...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2016, 17:56

... down, with the happiest results By that time, of course, I knew for certain that it was the Borgia pearl that we were after The name of the murdered man linked the one event with the other There only ... murdered two nights ago was the brother I have been looking up the dates in the old files of the paper, and I find that the disappearance of the pearl was exactly two days before the arrest of Beppo, ... out where the other three busts had gone The first was at Harker's There he was dogged by his confederate, who held Beppo responsible for the loss of the pearl, and he stabbed him in the scuffle...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 01:15

... never did fail me No doubt there are natural enemies which limit the increase of the creatures You and I, Watson, we have done our part Shall the world, then, be overrun by oysters? No, no; horrible! ... alone There is just room behind the head of my bed, Watson." "My dear Holmes!" "I fear there is no alternative, Watson The room does not lend itself to concealment, which is as well, as it is the ... For him the villain, for me the microbe There are my prisons," he continued, pointing to a row of bottles and jars which stood upon a side table "Among those gelatine cultivations some of the very...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 20:15

... gasped "The spring! It drew blood This box this on the table." "The very one, by George! And it may as well leave the room in my pocket There goes your last shred of evidence But you have the truth ... Smith "Turn up the gas? Ah, the shadows begin to fall, they? Yes, I will turn it up, that I may see you the better." He crossed the room and the light suddenly brightened "Is there any other little ... in the trial." There was a sudden rush and a scuffle, followed by the clash of iron and a cry of pain "You'll only get yourself hurt," said the inspector "Stand still, will you?" There was the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 20:15

... that the only man who really profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the stepfather Then the fact that the two men were never together, but that the one always appeared when the other ... could be the result of a disguise the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me whether it answered to the description of any of their ... that her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never for an instant entered her mind She was flattered by the gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the loudly expressed...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 02:15

... nervous hands together "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, the leather is scored by six almost parallel ... texture of the paper "What you make of that?" asked Holmes "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." "Not at all The 'G' with the small 't' stands for 'Gesellschaft,' which is the ... our doubts." As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the bell Holmes whistled "A pair, by the sound," said he "Yes,"...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 02:15

... translation of the ‘‘War Hymn of the Boers,’’ ‘‘sung by the Boers in their camps during the Majuba campaign’’ (Majuba was the scene of the infamous Boer defeat of the British in the first Boer ... possible in the abnormal condition of war Doyle solves the problem by ignoring the possibility of sexual expression by soldiers – their sexuality is submerged into their chivalry Doyle s The Great ... Adrian Conan Doyle and subsequent biographers cite J M Barrie’s tribute as representative: ‘‘There can never have been a more honorable man than Arthur Conan Doyle ’ (quoted in Jaffe Arthur Conan Doyle...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... what was in the wind "My cabby drove fast I don't think I ever drove faster, but the others were there before us The cab and the landau with their steaming horses were in front of the door when ... was all done in an instant, and there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front It was the most preposterous position in ... was increased by the two guardsmen, who took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissorsgrinder, who was equally hot upon the other side A blow was struck, and in an instant the lady, who...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15

... pushed past the servant and rushed into the drawingroom, followed by the King and myself The furniture was scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and open drawers, as if the lady ... to the celebrated Mr Sherlock Holmes Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and started for the Temple to see my husband We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by ... thank your Majesty Then there is no more to be done in the matter I have the honor to wish you a very good-morning." He bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the King had stretched...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15

... yourself, sir. " I took the paper from him and read as follows To the Red- Headed League: On account of the bequest of the late Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U S A., there is now another ... hand, and he says: "'I wish to the Lord, Mr Wilson, that I was a red- headed man.' "'Why that?' I asks "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the Red- headed Men It's worth quite ... guide myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my memory In the present instance I am forced to admit that the facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." The portly client...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15

... that it 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 ... 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 rule, is the motive In these cases, save for one rather intricate ... anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on the very morning of the wedding." "It missed him, then?" "Yes, sir; ...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 14:15

... matter until he heard in the evening of the tragedy that had occurred "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, the game-keeper, lost sight of them The Boscombe Pool is thickly ... before the magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next Assizes Those are the main facts of the case as they came out before the coroner and the police-court." "I could hardly imagine ... McCarthy, going the same way with a gun under his arm To the best of his belief, the father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was following him He thought no more of the matter until...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 14:15

... couple of hours." I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest ... deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone hail been shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon I marked the spot upon my own ... up into the air when his father, at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss Turner On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, and his father, who was by all...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 14:15

... Turner Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich landowner's dwelling On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods ... in the district, for the pool can only be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could hardly wander." "Quite so." "Then comes our expedition of to-day By an examination of the ... struck by the nature of the injury as recorded by the surgeon at the inquest The blow was struck from immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side Now, how can that be unless it were by a...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 14:15

... sea-stories until the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of the sea waves My wife was on a visit to her mother's, ... and rising from the table he retired to his room, leaving me palpitating with horror I took up the envelope and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the gum, the letter K three ... send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to step up to the room The fire was burning brightly, and in the grate there was a mass of...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 14:15