There are no limits to the possibilities of monomania, I answered. There is the condition which the modern French psychologists have called the ide fixe, which may be trifling in character, and accompanied by complete sanity in every other way. A man...
This is certainly very novel, said he. I thought it would please you. But I have not got to the end yet. Dr. Barnicot was due at his surgery at twelve o'clock, and you can imagine his amazement when, on arriving there, he found that the window had be...
The second case, however, was more serious and also more singular. It occurred only last night. In Kennington Road, and within a few hundred yards of Morse Hudson's shop, there lives a well-known medical practitioner, named Dr. Barnicot, who has one...
Burglary! This is more interesting. Let me hear the details. Lestrade took out his official note-book and refreshed his memory from its pages. The first case reported was four days ago, said he. It was at the shop of Morse Hudson, who has a place for...
Well, Mr. Holmes, there is no use denying that there is something on my mind. And yet it is such an absurd business that I hesitated to bother you about it. On the other hand, although it is trivial, it is undoubtedly queer, and I know that you have...
The Six Napoleons Arthur Conan Doyle It was no very unusual thing for Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, to look in upon us of an evening, and his visits were welcome to Sherlock Holmes, for they enabled him to keep in touch with all that was going on a...
That's rather vague, said Sherlock Holmes. Why, it might be a description of Watson! It's true, said the inspector, with much amusement. It might be a description of Watson. Well, I am afraid I can't help you, Lestrade, said Holmes. The fact is that...
We had breakfasted and were smoking our morning pipe on the day after the remarkable experience which I have recorded when Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, very solemn and impressive, was ushered into our modest sitting-room. Good morning, Mr. Holmes,...
You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that!and that!and that! She had drawn a little, gleaming revolver, and emptied barr...
Well, said Milverton, you've made me lose a good night's rest, my dear. I hope you'll prove worth it. You couldn't come any other timeeh? The woman shook her head. Well, if you couldn't you couldn't. If the Countess is a hard mistress you have your c...
