The Return Of Sherlock Holmes
contributor: Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.)
creator: Doyle, Arthur Conan
date: 0000-00-00
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language: en
publisher: Wiretap Electronic Text Archive
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source: return.dyl
subject: holmes
subject: man
subject: watson
subject: room
subject: return
subject: sherlock
subject: arthur
subject: conan
subject: doyle
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subject: domain
subject: english
subject: literature
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full text: THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE [obi/Doyle/Return] This text is in the Public Domain. The Adventure of the Empty House The Adventure of the Norwood Builder The Adventure of the Dancing Men The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist The Adventure of the Priory School The Adventure of Black Peter The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton The Adventure of the Six Napoleons The Adventure of the Three Students The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter The Adventure of the Abbey Range The Adventure of the Second Stain The Adventure of the Empty House It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and the fashionable world dismayed. by the murder of the Honourable Ronald Adair under most unusual and inexplica- ble circumstances. The public has already learned those particu- lars of the crime which came out in the po]ice investigation, but a good deal was suppressed upon that occasion, since the case for the prosecution was so overwhelmingly strong that it was not necessary to bring forward all the facts. Only now, at the end of nearly ten years, am I allowed to supply those missing links which make up the whole of that remarkable chain. The crime was of interest in itself, but that interest was as nothing to me compared to the inconceivable sequel, which afforded me the greatest shock and surprise of any event in my adventurous life. Even now, after this long interval, I find myself thrilling as I think of it, and feeling once more that sudden flood of joy, amazement, and incredulity which utterly submerged my mind. Let me say to that public, which has shown some interest in those glimpses which I have occasionally given them of the thoughts and actions of a very remarkable man, that they are not to blame me if I have not shared my knowledge with them, for I should have considered it my first duty to do so, had I not been barred by a positive prohibition from his own lips, which was only withdra…