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 commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes
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A woman is dying - a sudden and mysterious death in the middle of the night - and her last words are a blood-curdling shriek about a "speckled band." What does it mean? And how did she die? No one can figure it out...no one, that is, until Sherlock Holmes comes on the scene...
The Best of Sherlock Holmes contains the baffling case of "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," and five other famous mysteries - all solved brilliantly by the incomparable Mr. Holmes.
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"To SHERLOCK HOLMES she is always the woman."
Table of Contents
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Silver Blaze
A Scandal in Bohemia
The Adventure of the Dancing Men
The Final Problem
The Adventure of the Empty House
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| March 6, 2023 | Edited by AgentSapphire | merge authors |
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