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FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
Steel true, blade straight • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don’t know • Sherlock Holmes
I was a whetstone for his mind. I stimulated him • Dr John Watson
He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web • Professor James Moriarty
I am a practical man, Mr Holmes, and when I have got my evidence I come to my conclusions • Inspector G. Lestrade
THE EARLY ADVENTURES
There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life • A Study in Scarlet
I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule • The Sign of Four
You see, but you do not observe • A Scandal in Bohemia
I really wouldn’t miss your case for the world • The Red-Headed League
The little things are infinitely the most important • A Case of Identity
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact • The Boscombe Valley Mystery
I am the last court of appeal • The Five Orange Pips
It is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all • The Man with the Twisted Lip
In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a bloody deed • The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent • The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Each new discovery furnishes a step which leads on to the complete truth • The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb
I had formed my conclusions as to the case before our client came into the room • The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
There are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all other loves • The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
Crime is common. Logic is rare • The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
THE GREAT DETECTIVE
The real murderer is standing immediately behind you • Silver Blaze
There is no part of the body which varies so much as the human ear • The Cardboard Box
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt • The Yellow Face
Human nature is a strange mixture, Watson • The Stockbroker’s Clerk
And then in an instant the key of the riddle was in my hands • The Gloria Scott
In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed • The Musgrave Ritual
The results show that the trap was skillfully baited • The Reigate Squire
One of the strangest cases which ever perplexed a man’s brain • The Crooked Man
I can read in a man’s eye when it is his own skin he is frightened for • The Resident Patient
To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are • The Greek Interpreter
The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless • The Naval Treaty
Danger is part of my trade • The Final Problem
A LEGEND RETURNS
There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you • The Hound of the Baskervilles
This empty house is my tree, and you are my tiger • The Adventure of the Empty House
All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other • The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
I have the threads of this affair all in my hand • The Adventure of the Dancing Men
She thinks she does not know the man; I am convinced she does • The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist
A criminal who was capable of such a thought is a man whom I should be proud to do business with • The Adventure of the Priory School
One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it • The Adventure of Black Peter
By jove, Watson; I’ve got it! • The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
There is a certain method in the gentleman’s eccentric proceedings • The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs • The Adventure of the Three Students
Surely my deductions are simplicity itself • The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez
When a man is lost it is my duty to ascertain his fate • The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter
The game is afoot • The Adventure of the Abbey Grange
It is a capital mistake to theorize in advance of the facts • The Adventure of the Second Stain
HOLMES TAKES A BOW
A great brain and a huge organization have been turned to the extinction of one man • The Valley of Fear
The whole inexplicable tangle seemed to straighten out before me • The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge
Different threads, but leading to the same tangle • The Adventure of the Red Circle
The London criminal is certainly a dull fellow • The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans
Well, Watson, we seem to have fallen upon evil days • The Adventure of the Dying Detective
We simply can’t afford to wait for the police or to keep within the four corners of the law • The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
I have seldom known a case which at first sight presented a more singular problem • The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot
There’s an east wind coming, Watson • His Last Bow
THE FINAL DEDUCTIONS
This man has come for his own purpose, but he may stay for mine • The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
I can discover facts, Watson, but I cannot change them • The Problem of Thor Bridge
When one tries to rise above nature one is liable to fall below it • The Adventure of the Creeping Man
The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply • The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire
There is some guilty secret in the room • The Adventure of the Three Garridebs
Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls • The Adventure of the Illustrious Client
I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go • The Adventure of the Three Gables
I see no more than you, but I have trained myself to notice what I see • The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles • The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane
We reach. We grasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow • The Adventure of the Retired Colourman
Patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons • The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger
It is only the colourless, uneventful case which is hopeless • The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place
THE WORLD OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
What do you say to a ramble through London? • The Victorian World
There is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace • Sherlock and Society
I have a turn both for observation and for deduction • The Art of Deduction
There is nothing like first-hand evidence • Criminology and Forensic Science
You know my methods. Apply them • Crime Writing and Detective Fiction
What one man can invent, another can discover • The Fans of Sherlock Holmes
The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it • Sherlock on Stage and Screen
The many faces of Holmes
Holmes by other hands
Conan Doyle’s other works
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
COPYRIGHT
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