There were no footmarks.''Meaning that you saw none?''I assure you, sir, that there were none.''My good Hopkins, I have investigated many crimes, but I have never yet seen one which was committed by a...
I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.
He seems to have declared war on the King’s English as well as on the English king.
Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down. But that cry of p...
By my soul! I would rather have a dry death, quoth Sir Oliver. Though, Mort Dieu! I have eaten so many fish that it were but justice that the fish should eat me.
I have the advantage of knowing your habits, my dear Watson," said he. "When your round is a short one you walk, and when it is a long one you use a hansom. As I perceive that your boots, although use...
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
Presume nothing
If i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.
To begin at the beginning.
I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.
Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H. It was a nice equipment f...
Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe--Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour to be the first? Asked Holmes, with some asperity.To the man of precised, scientif...
The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there's no room for romance anywhere.
(...) My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built.
I do not think that life has any joy to offer so complete, so soul-filling as that which comes upon the imaginative lad, whose spare time is limited, but who is able to snuggle down into a corner with...
Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.
That was it, sir.
Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind.Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.