... 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 ... 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, ... friend bowed and smiled. "Mr. 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...
... 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...
... at 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 ... 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 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 ArthurConan Doyle. Stead and Doyle
use the notion of chivalry as a key trope for the discussion of the ethics
of...
... 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, ... 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
what ... 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 ... 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...