The Case Book Of Sherlock Holmes
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creator: Doyle, Arthur Conan
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language: en
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subject: holmes
subject: man
subject: watson
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subject: sherlock
subject: arthur
subject: conan
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full text: THE CASE BOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE [obi/Doyle/Case.Book] This text is in the Public Domain. Preface The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone The Problem of Thor Bridge The Adventure of the Creeping Man The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire The Adventure of the Three Garridebs The Adventure of the Illustrious Client The Adventure of the Three Gables The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier The Adventure of the Lion's Mane The Adventure of the Retired Colourman The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place PREFACE THE CASE BOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES I fear that Mr. Sherlock Holmes may become like one of those popular tenors who, having outlived their time, are still tempted to make repeated farewell bows to their indulgent audiences. This must cease and he must go the way of all flesh, material or imaginary. One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange, impossible place where the beaux of Fielding may still make love to the belles of Richardson, where Scott's heroes still may strut, Dickens's delightful Cockneys still raise a laugh, and Thackeray's worldlings continue to carry on their reprehensible careers. Perhaps in some humble corner of such a Valhalla, Sherlock and his Watson may for a time find a place, while some more astute sleuth with some even less astute comrade may fill the stage which they have vacated. His career has been a long one -- though it is possible to exaggerate it; decrepit gentlemen who approach me and declare that his adventures formed the reading of their boyhood do not meet the response from me which they seem to expect. One is not anxious to have one's personal dates handled so unkindly. As a matter of cold fact, Holmes made his debut in A Study in Scarlet and in The Sign of Four, two small booklets which appeared between 1887 and 1889. It was in 1891 that "A Scandal in Bohemia," the first of the long series of short stories, appeared in The Strand Magaz…