PART I “We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.” I The first scene is in the country, in Virginia; the time, 1880. There has been a wedding, between a handsome young man of slender means and a…
detective stories
Sherlock Holmes & associates
The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot
by Arthur Conan Doyle
In recording from time to time some of the curious experiences and interesting recollections which I associate with my long and intimate friendship with Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I have continually been faced by difficulties caused by his own aversion to…
The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge
by Arthur Conan Doyle
PART I. THE SINGULAR EXPERIENCE OF MR. JOHN SCOTT ECCLES I find it recorded in my notebook that it was a bleak and windy day towards the end of March in the year 1892. Holmes had received a telegram while…
The Mystery Of Marie Roget
by Edgar A. Poe
There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half-credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been…
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
by Arthur Conan Doyle
On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none…
The Boscombe Valley Mystery
by Arthur Conan Doyle
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? Have just been wired for…
The Five Orange Pips
by Arthur Conan Doyle
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 is no easy matter to know which…
The Red-headed League
by Arthur Conan Doyle
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 fiery red hair. With an apology for my intrusion,…
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
by Arthur Conan Doyle
"To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.…
The Man with the Twisted Lip
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal of the Theological College of St. George’s, was much addicted to opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some foolish freak when he was at college; for…