The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and when the maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran in this way: Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. Leave Paddington by the 11:15. What do you say, dear? said my wife, looking across at me. Will you go? I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at present. ...Read More

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes THE COPPER BEECHES To the man who loves art for its own sake, remarked Sherlock Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily Telegraph, It is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped this truth that in these little records of our cases which you have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much to the many causes celebres and sensational trials in which I have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made my special province. ...Read More

THE FINAL PROBLEM (The Memories of Sherlock Holmes) ...Read More