I don't think that any of my adventures with Mr. Sherlock Holmes opened quite so abruptly, or so dramatically, as that which I associate with The Three Gables.
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Saturday, November 1, 2014
The Adventure of the Three Garridebs
Posted by Unknown on 7:14 AM
It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.
The Blanched Soldier
Posted by Unknown on 7:12 AM
The ideas of my friend Watson, though limited, are exceedingly pertinacious. For a long time he has worried me to write an experience of my own.
The Adventure of the Creeping Man
Posted by Unknown on 7:11 AM
Mr. Sherlock Holmes was always of opinion that I should publish the singular facts connected with Professor Presbury, if only to dispel once for all the ugly rumours which some twenty years ago agitated the university and were echoed in the learned societies of London.
The Illustrious Client
Posted by Unknown on 7:09 AM
“It can't hurt now,” was Mr. Sherlock Holmes's comment when, for the tenth time in as many years, I asked his leave to reveal the following narrative.
The Adventure of the Lion's Mane
Posted by Unknown on 7:07 AM
It is a most singular thing that a problem which was certainly as abstruse and unusual as any which I have faced in my long professional career should have come to me after my retirement, and be brought, as it were, to my very door.
The Adventure Of The Mazarin Stone
Posted by Unknown on 7:05 AM
It was pleasant to Dr. Watson to find himself once more in the untidy room of the first floor in Baker Street which had been the starting-point of so many remarkable adventures.
The Adventure of the Retired Colourman
Posted by Unknown on 7:03 AM
Sherlock Holmes was in a melancholy and philosophic mood that morning. His alert practical nature was subject to such reactions.
The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place
Posted by Unknown on 7:01 AM
Sherlock Holmes had been bending for a long time over a low-power microscope. Now he straightened himself up and looked round at me in triumph.
The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire
Posted by Unknown on 6:59 AM
The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire
Holmes had read carefully a note which the last post had brought him. Then, with the dry chuckle which was his nearest approach to a laugh, he tossed it over to me.
The Problem of Thor Bridge
Posted by Unknown on 6:57 AM
The Problem of Thor Bridge
Somewhere in the vaults of the bank of Cox and Co., at Charing Cross, there is a travel-worn and battered tin dispatch-box with my name, John H. Watson, M.D., Late Indian Army, painted upon the lid.
The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger
Posted by Unknown on 6:51 AM
The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger
When one considers that Mr. Sherlock Holmes was in active practice for twenty-three years, and that during seventeen of these I was allowed to cooperate with him and to keep notes of his doings,
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The Adventure of the Three Gables