I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear beganto move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squatdiamond-shaped head and p...
About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished,and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hourspassed slowly away, a...
Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom andsitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, andfrom our window we co...
It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from hisexcursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawledover with notes and ...
"Two years have passed since then, and my life has been untillately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend,whom I have known for...
"When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner,the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery.My sister Julia...
On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which Ihave during the last eight years studied the methods of my friendSherlock Holmes, I find ...
"I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish youwere all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any morewi...
We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through azigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largeststalls bore the name of Breck...
I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-pastsix when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As Iapproached the house I saw a t...