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PART I. (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., late of the Army Medical Department.)
Page 1 and 2: The Complete Sherlock Holmes Arthur
Page 3 and 4: Table of contents A Study In Scarle
Page 5: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes Pr
Page 9: Part I A Study In Scarlet Table of
Page 14 and 15: man for him. I should prefer having
Page 16 and 17: “Do you include violin-playing in
Page 18 and 19: 9. Sensational Literature.—Immens
Page 20 and 21: in my opinion, Dupin was a very inf
Page 22 and 23: like the reflection of the mud-colo
Page 24 and 25: “American Exchange, Strand—to b
Page 26 and 27: have been there during the night, a
Page 28 and 29: “What sort of a man was he?” as
Page 30 and 31: “You had better clean it and load
Page 32 and 33: The papers next day were full of th
Page 34 and 35: “ ‘At eight o’clock,’ she s
Page 36 and 37: The intelligence with which Lestrad
Page 38 and 39: Holmes had taken out his watch, and
Page 41: PART II. The Country of the Saints.
Page 44 and 45: a small, scared face, with very bri
Page 46 and 47: the young fellows had dismounted, f
Page 48 and 49: from his privations, distinguished
Page 50 and 51: Lucy was silent, but her blushing c
Page 52 and 53: “She shall have a month to choose
Page 54 and 55: He expected that he would receive s
Page 56 and 57: his friends had hardly crouched dow
Page 58 and 59: a mountain torrent which he was sur
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itself upon the wall within a foot
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With these words, Jefferson Hope le
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a thing, and longed for it during t
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stretched upon the floor of the cel
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Hope, the deceased prisoner, hails
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The Sign of the Four Table of conte
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“Some facts should be suppressed,
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that a man who inherits one article
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I could appeal to. If I am here at
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It was a September evening, and not
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I took the liberty, therefore, of m
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the other of us with an obvious pri
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and prosaic, all plunged in shadow
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any mark was left behind. One tiny
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in its defense. As he hunted about,
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When you have dropped Miss Morstan
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“They belong,” I said, “to a
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crime, and usually afford valuable
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ered their tracks. There has, I fea
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the roof of the building, and so th
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I did not pause to argue over this
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At three o’clock in the afternoon
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Our meal was a merry one. Holmes co
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“Winwood Reade is good upon the s
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His age may have been fifty or ther
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No wonder that it was heavy. The ir
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my line. I only know what I saw wit
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“ ‘There is a rajah in the nort
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forty-three diamonds of the first w
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“ ‘Look here, Small,’ said th
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He could climb like a cat, and he s
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A Scandal in Bohemia
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o Sherlock Holmes she is always the
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As he spoke there was the sharp sou
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“Because she has said that she wo
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a surpliced clergyman, who seemed t
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Slowly and solemnly he was borne in
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“My dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes: “
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had called upon my friend, Mr. Sher
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over our heads and pay our debts, i
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a will, or that they would pay such
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his eyes shining brightly between p
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We had reached the same crowded tho
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“But how could you guess what the
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y dear fellow,” said Sherlock Hol
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A flush stole over Miss Sutherland
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went her way, with a promise to com
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“On the contrary,” said Holmes
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The Boscombe Valley Mystery
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him as he passed over this ground.
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could only catch some allusion to a
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“I think that I see my way to cle
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walked behind him, the detective in
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was an Indian cigar, of the variety
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The Five Orange Pips
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“I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes.
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“Well, it was the beginning of
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Sherlock Holmes sat for some time i
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“You will excuse me for not waiti
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The Man with the Twisted Lip
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the metal pipes. The most lay silen
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as we have been able to ascertain,
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not an instant to be lost. He rushe
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“He only, as I understand, gave a
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The prisoner turned with the reckle
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The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
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“Then, what clue could you have a
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not be found either upon his person
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Holborn. Holmes pushed open the doo
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A flush sprang to the white cheeks
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“No more words. Get out!” And n
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n glancing over my notes of the sev
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ing over all the money which I coul
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lamp, but nothing was to be seen in
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“Yes, sir, that be the house of D
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“It is very essential, Miss Stone
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strong smell of burning oil and hea
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The Adventure of the Engineer’s T
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He unwound the handkerchief and hel
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a train back. I should be compelled
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should not stay here. There is no g
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“ ‘Fritz! Fritz!’ she cried i
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the direction of Reading, but there
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he Lord St. Simon marriage, and its
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“ ‘The family of Lord Robert St
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elate and can have no possible bear
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“Oh, indeed!” said my friend, b
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of news came for a year and more, s
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The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
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upon our being able to find remuner
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“ ‘Look here, dad,’ said he w
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to some other place, concealed thre
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make his task more difficult. For a
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lover extinguishes all other loves,
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The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
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developed into a serious investigat
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shade of electric blue and would li
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“Let us have everything in its du
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As it emerged into the moonshine I
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more feat? I should not ask it of y
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“And in this way he managed that
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Silver Blaze
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“Silver Blaze,” said he, “is
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about the King’s Pyland horses, a
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knife with a very delicate, inflexi
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“What’s this, Dawson!” he cri
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“We scratched our other one, and
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My eyes fell upon the sheep, and I
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[In publishing these short sketches
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“Kindly let me have the facts, Mr
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to do. We hardly exchanged a word d
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“I am afraid that this is a bad b
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“It was you who told me first tha
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hortly after my marriage I had boug
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“Of course I was pleased to hear
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“I went back to the hotel with th
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His knees were drawn up, his head h
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The “Gloria Scott”
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“ ‘Come, now, Mr. Holmes,’ sa
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“We were dashing along the smooth
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the terror of the law, it is not th
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were lockers all round, and Wilson,
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The Musgrave Ritual
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points in it which make it quite un
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when I was surprised to find that t
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close to the avenue, about two hund
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concealed. He had spotted the place
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The Reigate Puzzle
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“Have you heard the news, sir?”
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able to point out the exact spot wh
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“My good sir,” said Mr. Cunning
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not always sufficient, and you can
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The Crooked Man
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conceivable that you may even have
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“There was one thing in the case
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with rage. She never said a word un
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“But when one gets old one has a
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lancing over the somewhat incoheren
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me to wait another hour before aski
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his walk shortly afterwards, but I
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I shall be surprised if we do not h
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Our visitors arrived at the appoint
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uring my long and intimate acquaint
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The brother scribbled a note upon a
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“ ‘You are not doing her any se
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“And to what effect?” Mycroft H
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kept him in the house without the g
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he July which immediately succeeded
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uncle, Lord Holdhurst, I rose rapid
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“Then we returned to the office,
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for our existence in the first inst
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nothing against them then but the w
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of cloak which came across the lowe
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ack to his lost treaty, wondering,
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the board, rearranged the carpet, b
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The Final Problem
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on a pinnacle in the records of cri
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it is from his agents the blow will
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“We shall get out at Canterbury.
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that tall Englishman who came in af
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
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t was in the spring of the year 189
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five volumes you could just fill th
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they had always been. So it was, my
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empty house. Holmes crouched back a
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He had thrown off the seedy frock-c
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The Adventure of the Norwood Builde
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“Dear me,” said he; “it was o
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“You can imagine, Mr. Holmes, tha
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something for this unfortunate youn
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My friend had no breakfast himself,
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may possibly remember that you chaf
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The Adventure of the Dancing Men
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Holmes examined it for some time, a
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exactly the same as the last one. A
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of the Norfolk Constabulary, and he
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approached it. The flowers were tra
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I therefore cabled to my friend, Wi
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“If you use the code which I have
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om the years 1894 to 1901 inclusive
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down my machine, but he slowed down
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The knowledge that the girl’s sto
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“That’s what I am asking you. Y
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“Well, well, two of you came over
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e have had some dramatic entrances
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leaving a neighbouring station by a
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“Was there anything in your lette
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y a rider who was going from the di
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“The matter is very important. I
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school when he reached it, but went
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under my roof. I answer that it was
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The Adventure of Black Peter
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what do you make of that tobacco-po
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the murderer. I would also urge tha
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turned to leave the hut when Hopkin
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“You can’t deny that Neligan wa
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the coarse tobacco—all these poin
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t is years since the incidents of w
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“What I say is true,” Holmes an
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suit us best, but it is bolted as w
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I wouldn’t hurt a fly of my own a
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The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
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smashed in Dr. Barnicot’s rooms w
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the house, or immediately outside t
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“The Press, Watson, is a most val
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his matted hair, and once, when my
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I knew for certain that it was the
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t was in the year ’95 that a comb
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The lecturer unlocked the outer doo
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“I don’t know, sir. It didn’t
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“It is only a suggestion,” said
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The Adventure of the Golden Pince-N
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Holmes lit his cigar and leaned bac
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ight side of the neck and from behi
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“Very good. Mrs. Marker, you can
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had never known him handle a case i
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“You were always a noble woman, A
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The Adventure of the Missing Three-
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I am happy to say, into amateur spo
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with a little delicacy and finesse
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Armstrong. He held my friend’s ca
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way help Mr. Godfrey Staunton, and
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“I wish you to understand, in the
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t was on a bitterly cold and frosty
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in an instant. He caught me first b
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near them, two-thirds full, and bes
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without any mark of fraying whateve
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“Which?” “Well, I suggested a
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take upon myself, but I have given
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had intended “The Adventure of th
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Holmes wrote a name upon a slip of
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would, in any case, have turned my
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Godolphin Street, Westminster. Our
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here, MacPherson. Let these gentlem
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telling me frankly the real meaning
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
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. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually
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practitioner. He was a very tall, t
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low, for they say that the words us
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May Sir Charles had declared his in
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“What was the use?” “How was
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strange, peering, absent-minded fas
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who has spent most of his time in t
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“Nothing,” said he, throwing it
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get the number? No. 2704 is our man
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“What do you make of it yourself?
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into which all these strange and ap
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there are one or two other neighbou
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“No, no, the Yew Alley is on the
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“I heard it distinctly, and I am
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with those. And Holmes had expressl
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“Why, you had not very much time
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unfruitful soil. I am no antiquaria
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trust that they do not mean that I
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But when I came to think the matter
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you as an agent—that you do not r
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“Then get your revolver and put o
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strange inhabitants remains as insc
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my wife. Only a few weeks ago she w
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to be quit of it all on the day tha
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“Do you think a woman could go al
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along the same path at the same hou
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For a moment or two I sat breathles
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the man who had owned it—the name
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came Selden, in the darkness, to kn
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will have to undergo to-morrow, whe
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“I hope that you will come also.
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in Little Russia, in the year ’66
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A sound of quick steps broke the si
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It was evident to us that all pursu
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Vandeleurs found it convenient to c
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can be traced for several years, as
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The Valley Of Fear
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PART I. The Tragedy of Birlstone
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“What do you make of it, Holmes?
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I was staring at the strange messag
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indorsed the high opinion formed of
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you can bring Mr. Holmes, please do
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ound the old village with his pipe
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The dead man’s right arm was thru
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with the deliberate intention of co
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should have done it some other way.
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or heard. They had then rushed out
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“What do you mean by ‘appears
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“Where are the slippers now?”
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she is lying also. They are both ly
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“I propose to go up there present
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Next morning, after breakfast, we f
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“Now sign that, and send it by ha
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hint which you conveyed to me throu
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On the other hand, I brought a bit
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It was the fourth of February in th
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these evenings. But mind my words:
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McMurdo was a man who made his mark
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The girl sank her face into her han
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work mixing drinks for the loungers
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fists, or, if that won’t satisfy
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“Just the same old Teddy Marvin,
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“Dear Sir: “There is a job to b
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Freeman, and of these he was given
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friend. Afterwards he read the Dail
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to it. I expect you meant kindly by
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Needless to say that they were disc
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than she had ever been since Jack M
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him again and again. He had screame
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his men were undisturbed by such re
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come right down to the waiting room
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As McMurdo had said, the house in w
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“Ay,” said Baldwin, catching hi
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that the light went for a time out
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His Last Bow
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The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge
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The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge CHA
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on the grass-grown drive in front o
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“On the face of it the case is no
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man had opened the door, the candle
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Baynes, who has the case in hand, t
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was a woman. Who then but Miss Burn
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same reasons for revenge. He could
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The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
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“So far I could hardly have gone
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dissecting-rooms, it would be as ea
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Tottenham Court Road for fifty-five
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seated upon a chest with his head s
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“ ‘Well, Sarah found that she c
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The Adventure of the Red Circle Tab
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landlady had handed to him, “this
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“Well, what am I to do, Mr. Holme
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“Holmes!” he cried. “Why, Gre
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Half an hour later we were seated,
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The Adventure of the Bruce-Partingt
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All other men are specialists, but
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“Yes; his brother, Colonel Valent
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“That should be helpful, Watson,
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“Did you close it?” “I am alw
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the roof of the train. That was cle
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“For England, home and beauty—e
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“That will do very well. I shall
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s. Hudson, the landlady of Sherlock
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scream. As I turned I caught a glim
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stood upon a side table. ”Among t
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will turn it up, that I may see you
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The Disappearance of Lady Frances C
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live, and their passbooks are compr
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An hour afterwards, Sherlock Holmes
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answered. ‘It took longer, being
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died—certificate says senile deca
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The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot
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church. The vicar of the parish, Mr
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two great apes. Oh, it was awful to
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asking Holmes in an eager voice whe
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tion between three things—the bur
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“What do you mean?” he asked at
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Holmes sat for some little time in
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t was nine o’clock at night upon
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“Sparking plugs, eh?” “You se
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these things? Steiner is the fifth
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I have long had an eye upon him. Mi
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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
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The Illustrious Client
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“No, it is more serious than that
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am glad to have had my attention ca
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“None of that, Mr. Holmes,” cri
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I have my plans. The first thing is
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“Very mysterious,” said he with
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“It is a loyal friend and a chiva
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he ideas of my friend Watson, thoug
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the table. He looked up at last wit
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“I really took no notice.” “P
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took out my notebook and scribbled
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then, had to be sifted and balanced
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t was pleasant to Dr. Watson to fin
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Watson waited until the door was cl
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Ikey Sanders, who refused to cut it
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villains staggered back in utter am
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The Adventure of the Three Gables
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“But what is it?” “I was goin
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“Settled once again,” said Holm
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“It seems a queer thing to break
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away, and were, I admit, a little r
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olmes had read carefully a note whi
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So the matter stands. She is now co
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original yeoman farmer of the seven
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The boy cooed and nestled his head
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The Adventure of the Three Garrideb
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“Why did he ever drag you into it
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“Now and again I drive down to So
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know my Watson by now. But there is
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castle in the air fell down, it bur
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omewhere in the vaults of the bank
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“I know you have,” our visitor
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The Gold King paused for a moment a
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to a side-gate opening into the gro
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“Perhaps Mr. Neil Gibson has told
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I had no glimmer of what was in his
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The Adventure of the Creeping Man
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his master, save on very special oc
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love affair. He made a journey abro
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Sulkily our host—if I may call hi
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egan after his visit to Prague, tha
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The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane
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was blood dripping down his chin, f
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Murdoch’s face flushed with anger
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to be in a nightmare in which you f
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of rocks lay above it at the base o
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The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger
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she cried. It was in the night, and
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“I learned it when I had recovere
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The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Plac
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Holmes raised his eyebrows. “This
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“Exactly!” Holmes had become ve
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enewed activity. Once more we found
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of the coffins of her husband’s a
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herlock Holmes was in a melancholy
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“Well, he was painting the passag
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malevolent scowl. None the less, he
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observed it. You’ll get results,
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