The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“Have you never—” said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and sinking his voice—“have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?”
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
By Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on 14 October 1892. It contains the earliest short stories featuring the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, which had been published in twelve monthly issues of The Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The stories are collected in the same sequence, which is not supported by any fictional chronology. The only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson and all are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view.
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- Project Gutenberg eBook #1661 — 1892 English story collection
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- Five Little Pips
- The Dead Bird's Egg
- A note at the altar
- Life Stranger Than Fiction
- A Figure in the Doorway
- A Shoe, Six Cuts, One Life
- A Case Made Personal
- The Beggar Experiment
- Lured onto the Embankment
- Soul of Steel
- The Red-Headed League
- A Missing Lady, A Hidden Truth
- When the Ceiling Began to Fall
- A Three-Pipe Problem
- How a Bet Reveals Truth
- A Night of Silent Watching
- Ruined in One Night
- A Pencil Note and a Dirty Thumb
- The Fatal Mauling
- A Fall Among Roses
- Holmes on the scent
- Escape through a hidden panel
- The Remaining Improbable Truth
- Five Livid Spots on a Wrist
- Promise of Silence
- The Speckled Band
- K. K. K. on an Envelope
- The Ideal Reasoner
- Ruins, Fire, and a Severed Thumb
- The Man Who Vanished from the Cab
- Holmes's Method
- The Chilling Headline
- Moonlight and a Cleaver
- Reading a Life in an Object
- The Stepfather's Masquerade
- A Volcanic Nature
- The Treble K
- Seen but Not Observed
- The Orange Pips and a Terrible Cry
- The Dying Clue
- Define the Danger
- A Twenty-Minute Pursuit
- Seeing vs Observing
- The Unmasked Man
- The Fall from the Sill
- A Secret Marriage
- A Rush to Hide
- A Hand from the Floor
- The Toy Box
- Evil in the Countryside
- Coat Over the Thames
- The Call at the Pool
- The Serpent's Crest
- The Clue in a Smear
- Irene in the Hall
- The Daintiest in a Bonnet
- The Bent Coronet
- The dark-lantern's clue
- Look Where Holmes Looks
- Pulled Awake
- The Jewel That Breeds Crime
- Holmes's eye for detail
- The Blue Stone in the Crop
- The Woman Who Bested Holmes
- How Was It Done?
- The Blue Carbuncle Revealed
- A Goose and a Man
- The Truth in the Ink
- Body at Waterloo
- A Masked Figure in the Opium Den
- Betrayed by a Disguise
- The King Revealed
- The Whistle at Night
- An Untenable Theory
- The Night's Horrible Cry
- Holmes's Quiet Fury
- The Goose and the Jewel
- Secret warnings of the Ku Klux Klan
- A name that signals danger