The case-book of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
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- 13 chapters
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"The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle is a collection of twelve short stories published between 1921 and 1927. This final set of Holmes mysteries marks the detective's last adventures, featuring cases narrated by Watson, Holmes himself, and even a third-person perspective. Set against the changing world of the 1920s, these stories experiment with new narrative styles as Doyle returned one final time to his legendary creation, though some critics consider them a lesser entry in the Holmes canon.
- Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character)
- Private investigators · England
- Detective and mystery stories, English
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Chapter I
THE ADVENTURE OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS CLIENT
"It can't hurt now," was Mr. Sherlock Holmes's comment when, for the tenth time in as many years, I asked his leave to reveal the following narrative. So it was that at last I obtained permission to put on record what was, in some ways, the supreme moment of my friend's career.
Both Holmes and I had a weakness for the Turkish Bath. It was over a smoke in the pleasant lassitude of the drying-room that I have found him less reticent and more human than anywhere else. On the upper floor of the Northumberland Avenue establishment there is an isolated corner where two couches lie side by side, and it was on these that we lay upon September 3, 1902, the day when my narrative begins. I had asked him whether anything was stirring, and for answer he had shot his long, thin, nervous arm out of the sheets which enveloped him and had drawn an envelope from the inside pocket of the coat which hung beside him.
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This free edition of The case-book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #69700, released 2023-01-03. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Short Stories, Crime, Thrillers and Mystery, British Literature.
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