Subject for April, 2020

V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS – II.

Subject: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried orange pips. “This is the envelope,” he continued. “Th...

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V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS – I.

Subject: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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 and interesting features that it ...

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IV.THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY – III.

Subject: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy...

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IV.THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY – II.

Subject: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

It was nearly four o’clock when we at last, after passing through the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, found ourselves at the pretty little country-t...

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IV.THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY – I.

Subject: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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: “Have you a couple of days to spare...

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III. A CASE OF IDENTITY – II.

Subject: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“Quite an interesting study, that maiden,” he observed. “I found her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, is rather a trite one. You will find parallel c...

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III. A CASE OF IDENTITY – I.

Subject: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“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 cou...

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II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE – III.

Subject: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he ha...

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II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE – II.

Subject: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“‘Dear me!’ he said gravely, ‘that is very serious indeed! I am sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as f...

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II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE – I.

Subject: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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 with f...

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