Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearthrug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before. It was a fi...
I had picked up the original cipher message and was bending my brows over it."It's pretty maddening to think that an important secret may lie here on this slip of paper,and that it is beyond human power to penetrate it." Sherlock Holmes had pushed away his untasted breakfast and lit...
I had picked up the original cipher message and was bending my brows over it. "It's pretty maddening to think that an important secret may lie here on this slip of paper, and that it is beyond human power to penetrate it." Sherlock Holmes had pushed away his untasted breakfast and ...
This collection of seven original Holmesian plays, never before published in book form, features the Great Detective's encounters with none other than Fanttmas, the French Lord of Terror, Count Dracula, Father Brown, Theodore Roosevelt and more. Renowned playwright and translator Frank J. Morlock...
disappeared over Reichenbach Falls and was presumed dead. Until, that is, he reappeared in London in 1894. Holmes remained mostly quiet on the events of those years and for over a century speculation has run riot about what really happened during the 'hidden years.' Now in this original ...
I had picked up the original cipher message and was bending my brows over it."It's pretty maddening to think that an important secret may lie here on this slip of paper,and that it is beyond human power to penetrate it." Sherlock Holmes had pushed away his untasted breakfast and lit ...
"Hang it all, Mr. Holmes!" cried the inspector. "The papers will be full of the Birlstone mystery in a day or two; but where's the mystery if there is a man in London who prophesied the crime before ever it occurred? We have only to lay our hands on that man, and the rest wi...
Holmes and I sat together in silence all the evening, he engaged with a powerful lens deciphering the remains of the original inscription upon a palimpsest, I deep in a recent treatise upon surgery. Outside the wind howled down Baker Street, while the rain beat fiercely against the...
If you want to master just about everything there is to know about The Great Detective and The Good Doctor, to understand what Holmes meant when he referred to "a comet vintage" of wine, and to know what discrepancies there are between the English and American editions of the works, plus...
XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET “Holmes,” said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking down the street...