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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

A. Conan Doyle

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Follow the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson as they solve mysteries and crimes filled with suspense and intrigue. “It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.” —CONAN DOYLE

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

A. Conan Doyle

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English

Follow the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson as they solve mysteries and crimes filled with suspense and intrigue. “It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.” —CONAN DOYLE

CHAPTER 1

To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion...

CHAPTER 2

I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman...

CHAPTER 3

“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 than anything which the mind of man could invent...

CHAPTER 4

We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran in this way...

CHAPTER 5

When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes cases between the years ’82 and ’90, I am faced by so many which present strange...

CHAPTER 6

Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal of the Theological College of St. George’s, was much addicted to opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some foolish freak...

CHAPTER 7

I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the compliments of the season. He was lounging...

CHAPTER 8

On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange...

CHAPTER 9

Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his notice...

CHAPTER 10

The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles in which the unfortunate bridegroom...

CHAPTER 11

“Holmes,” said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking down the street, “here is a madman coming along. It seems rather sad that his relatives...