The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

should be very glad if you would have the kindness to show us over the house, Mr. Cunningham.” A ston ...

some reason my companion desired me to take the blame upon myself. The others did the same, and set the tabl ...

“Keep that,” said Holmes, quietly putting his foot upon it; “you will find it useful at the trial. ...

this case there was not the slightest doubt in my mind from the first that the key of the whole matt ...

to fill up. These blanks were not always sufficient, and you can see that the second man had a squeeze to fit ...

“And now I have to consider the motive of this singular crime. To get at this, I endeavoured first o ...

Holmes, laughing. “I was sorry to cause you the sympathetic pain which I know that you felt. We then wen ...

If you will only come round at quarter to twelve to the east gate you will learn what will very ...

VIII. The Crooked Man One summer night, a few months after my marriage, I was seated by my own hearth smoking a ...

I handed him my pouch, and he seated himself opposite to me and smoked for some time in silence. I was ...

“Then, if you are not too sleepy, I will give you a sketch of what has happened, and ...

character. He was a dashing, jovial old soldier in his usual mood, but there were occasions on which he see ...

blinds were not down, for the room was seldom used in the evening, but Mrs. Barclay herself lit the lamp and ...

then placed upon the sofa, and a careful examination made of the scene of the tragedy. “The injury from ...

Colonel could have seen his wife making a murderous attack upon him. Nor was the fact of the wound ...

“But it is not the print of a monkey.” “What can it be, then?” “Neither dog nor cat nor monkey nor any creature ...

“Thank you, you have gone rather too far to stop.” “It is quite certain that when Mrs. Barclay left t ...

o’clock. On our way we had to pass through Hudson Street, which is a very quiet thoroughfare. There is on ...

number of civilians, and a deformed man was sure to have attracted attention. I spent a day in the search ...

“This is the street,” said he, as we turned into a short thoroughfare lined with plain two-storied bri ...