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The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and
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most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions
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whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms
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of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online
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at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States,
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you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located
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before using this eBook.
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Title: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Release date: March 1, 1999 [eBook #1661]
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Most recently updated: October 10, 2023
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Language: English
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Credits: an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez
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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES ***
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Contents
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I. A Scandal in Bohemia
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II. The Red-Headed League
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III. A Case of Identity
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IV. The Boscombe Valley Mystery
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V. The Five Orange Pips
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VI. The Man with the Twisted Lip
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VII. The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
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VIII. The Adventure of the Speckled Band
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IX. The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb
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X. The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
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XI. The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
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XII. The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
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I. A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA
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I.
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To Sherlock Holmes she is always _the_ woman. I have seldom heard him
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mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and
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predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion
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akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly,
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were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He
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was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that
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the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a
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false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe
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and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer—excellent for
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drawing the veil from men’s motives and actions. But for the trained
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reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely
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adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might
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throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sensitive
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instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not
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be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his. And
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yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene
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Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.
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I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us away
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from each other. My own complete happiness, and the home-centred
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interests which rise up around the man who first finds himself master
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of his own establishment, were sufficient to absorb all my attention,
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while Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian
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soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old
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books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition,
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the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen
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nature. He was still, as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime,
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and occupied his immense faculties and extraordinary powers of
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observation in following out those clues, and clearing up those
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mysteries which had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police.
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From time to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his
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summons to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up
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of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, and
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finally of the mission which he had accomplished so delicately and
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successfully for the reigning family of Holland. Beyond these signs of
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his activity, however, which I merely shared with all the readers of
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the daily press, I knew little of my former friend and companion.
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One night—it was on the twentieth of March, 1888—I was returning from a
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journey to a patient (for I had now returned to civil practice), when
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my way led me through Baker Street. As I passed the well-remembered
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door, which must always be associated in my mind with my wooing, and
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with the dark incidents of the Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a
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keen desire to see Holmes again, and to know how he was employing his
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