The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing Cro...

"You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The pho...

"There was a group of shabbily dressed men smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his wheel, [...]" (A...

"It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in Serpenti...

"I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a remark...

"It is n othing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar- shaped roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary  plumber...

"Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau , th...