23-03-06 The Final Problem Arthur Conan Doyle It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes was distinguished. In an incoherent and, as I de...

23-03-06 The Naval Treaty Arthur Conan Doyle The July which immediately succeeded my marriage was made memorable by three cases of interest, in which I had the privilege of being associated with Sherlock Holmes and of studying his methods. I find them record...

23-03-06 The Greek Interpreter Arthur Conan Doyle During my long and intimate acquaintance with Mr. Sherlock Holmes I had never heard him refer to his relations, and hardly ever to his own early life. This reticence upon his part had increased the somewhat i...

23-03-06 The Resident Patient Arthur Conan Doyle Glancing over the somewhat incoherent series of Memoirs with which I have endeavored to illustrate a few of the mental peculiarities of my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I have been struck by the difficulty which...

23-03-06 The Crooked Man Arthur Conan Doyle One summer night, a few months after my marriage, I was seated by my own hearth smoking a last pipe and nodding over a novel, for my days work had been an exhausting one. My wife had already gone upstairs, and the...

23-03-06 The Reigate Puzzle It was some time before the health of my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes recovered from the strain caused by his immense exertions in the spring of 87. The whole question of the Netherland-Sumatra Company and of the colossal schemes of...

23-03-03 The Musgrave Ritual Arthur Conan Doyle An anomaly which often struck me in the character of my friend Sherlock Holmes was that, although in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most methodical of mankind, and although also he affected a cer...

23-03-03 The Gloria Scott Arthur Conan Doyle I have some papers here, said my friend Sherlock Holmes, as we sat one winters night on either side of the fire, which I really think, Watson, that it would be worth your while to glance over. These are the docume...

23-03-03 The Stock-Brokers Clerk Arthur Conan Doyle Shortly after my marriage I had bought a connection in the Paddington district. Old Mr. Farquhar, from whom I purchased it, had at one time an excellent general practice; but his age, and an affliction of t...

23-03-03 The Yellow Face Arthur Conan Doyle [In publishing these short sketches based upon the numerous cases in which my companions singular gifts have made us the listeners to, and eventually the actors in, some strange drama, it is only natural that I sho...