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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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Canon of Sherlock Holmes: Book 3

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) (edit title/settings)

by Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) (edit contributors)

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Amid the foggy streets of sinister London and the even more sinister countryside, Holmes and Watson once more solve the unsolvable. This book is a collection of stories, including - A Scandal in Bohemia, A Case of Identity, The Red-Headed League & The Boscombe Valley Mystery.

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There isn't a "plot", there are just many short stories, only a few pages long.

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  • “"It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."”
    Sherlock Holmes
  • ““My dear fellow, life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent."”
    Sherlock Holmes
  • ““Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing. It may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different."”
    Sherlock Holmes
  • ““It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    Sherlock Holmes
  • “"My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago."”
    Watson
  • “So accustomed was I to his invariable success than the very possibility of his failing had ceased to enter into my head.”
    Watson
  • “My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know.”
    Sherlock Holmes
  • “It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' request, for they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with such a quiet air of mastery.”
    Watson
  • “On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see.”
    Sherlock Holmes
  • “Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.”
    Sherlock Holmes

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  • Baker Street Irregulars: A group of street urchins that Holmes would sometimes use to help solve cases.
  • K.K.K.: Holmes deals with the Ku Klux Klan in one of his cases. Often abbreviated KKK and informally known as The Klan, is the name of three distinct past and present organizations in the United States, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy and nationalism. The current manifestation is splintered into several chapters and is widely considered to be a hate group. The first KKK flourished in the South in the 1860s, then died out by the early 1870s. The second KKK flourished nationwide in the early and mid 1920s, and adopted the costumes and paraphernalia of the first Klan. The third Klan emerged after World War II. Their iconic white costumes consisted of robes, masks, and conical hat. The first and third KKK had a well-established record of using terrorism, but historians debate how central that tactic was to the second KKK.

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To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman.

Table of Contents edit see section history

I. A Scandal in Bohemia
II. The Red-headed League
III. A Case of Identity
IV. The Boscombe Valley Mystery
V. The Five Orange Pips
VI. The Man with the Twisted Lip
VII. The Adventure of Blue Carbuncle
VIII. The Adventure of the Speckled Band
IX. The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
X. The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
XI. The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
XII. The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

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This is book 3 of 9 in Canon of Sherlock Holmes. (standard series)

Preceded by The Sign of Four, and followed by The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

This book is in Folio Society. (publisher edition list)
This book is in Readers Digest Press. (publisher edition list)
This book is in Heritage Press. (publisher edition list)
This is book 805 of 1286 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)
This book is in Easton Press. (publisher edition list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Arthur Conan Doyle (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Chris Sasaki
  2. Malvina G. Vogel
  3. Richard Lebenson (Illustrator)
  4. Fred Strebeigh (Afterword)
  5. Jo Polseno (Illustrator)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: George Newnes
Country: England
Publication Date: 1892
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 320

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  • Project Gutenberg: Free e-book, full text
  • Librivox: Free audio book read by Ruth Golding, Total running time: 13:29:27
  • Librivox: Free audio book read by Mark F. Smith, Total running time: 11:14:43

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