The Sherlock Holmes Book

354 Pages·2015·52.62 MB·English

IN MY INMOST WHAT ONE MAN
HEART I BELIEVED CAN INVENT,
THAT I COULD
ANOTHER CAN
SUCCEED WHERE
DISCOVER
OTHERS FAILED
I CAN DISCOVER
MY NAME IS SHERLOCK
FACTS, WATSON,
HOLMES. IT IS MY
I REALLY WOULDN’T BUT I CANNOT BUSINESS TO KNOW
MISS YOUR CASE FOR WHAT OTHER PEOPLE
CHANGE THEM
THE WORLD DON’T KNOW
I HAVE
A TURN
BOTH FOR
OBSERVATION
AND FOR
DEDUCTION
THE
GAME IS
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ONE OF THE STRANGEST
I HAVE THE
CASES WHICH EVER THREADS OF
THIS AFFAIR ALL
PERPLEXED A MAN’S BRAIN
IN MY HAND
THE WHOLE THERE IS NOTHING THERE IS
INEXPLICABLE MORE STIMULATING NOTHING LIKE
TANGLE SEEMED THAN A CASE WHERE
FIRST-HAND
TO STRAIGHTEN EVERYTHING GOES
EVIDENCE
OUT BEFORE ME AGAINST YOU

THE
SHERLOCK
HOLMES
BOOK

THE
SHERLOCK
HOLMES
BOOK
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CONTRIBUTORS
DAVID STUART DAVIES, CONSULTANT EDITOR JOHN FARNDON
David Stuart Davies is a crime writer, playwright, and editor. John Farndon is a Royal Literary Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University
Regarded as an authority on Sherlock Holmes, he has written seven in Cambridge, UK, and an author, playwright, and composer.
Holmes novels and several nonfiction works, including Starring Among his many books are Do You Think You’re Clever? and
Sherlock Holmes (Titan), and edited numerous collections dealing Do Not Open. He is the creator of The Secret History of Objects
with the Baker Street sleuth. His latest Holmes title is Sherlock tales, which premiered at the Moscow Polytech Festival in 2015.
Holmes & The Devil’s Promise (Titan). His own detectives are
ANDREW HERITAGE
Johnny Hawke, a private detective operating in London during
World War II; Luther Darke, a Victorian “puzzle solver”; and
DI Paul Snow, a Yorkshire policeman in a series of novels set in Andrew Heritage is a publishing consultant who specializes
the 1980s, the most recent being Innocent Blood (Mystery Press). in cartography, current affairs, art, popular culture, and literary
His website is www.davidstuartdavies.com history. He has edited and contributed to over 100 titles including
the DK Atlas of World History, The Book of Codes, The Book of
BARRY FORSHAW, CONSULTANT EDITOR
Saints, The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction, and Great Movies.
ALEX WHITTLETON
Barry Forshaw is one of the UK’s leading experts on crime fiction
and film. His books include Nordic Noir, Sex and Film, and The
Rough Guide to Crime Fiction. Other works include Death in a Cold Alex Whittleton is a freelance professional writer on a range
Climate, British Gothic Cinema, Euro Noir, and the Keating Award - of nonfiction subjects, including literature, lifestyle, media,
winning British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia, along with books and food. She has had academic work published in the Thomas
on Italian cinema and Stieg Larsson. He writes for various national Hardy Yearbook and has a particular interest in Victorian
newspapers and edits Crime Time (www.crimetime.co.uk). literature and culture.
DAVID ANDERSON LIZ WYSE
David Anderson is a researcher based in the Department of English Liz Wyse is an author and editor who has written on a wide range
at University College London, where he specializes in the literature of historical subjects, and recently created a range of books on
and film of the city. He is a senior editor at Review 31, a staff writer etiquette and modern manners for Debrett’s. She has edited a
at Connell Guides, and writer-in-residence at the Cob Gallery. number of historical atlases, including The Times Atlas of World
Archaeology and The Historical Atlas of New York City, and was
JOLY BRAIME
Editor-in-Chief of The Guinness Book of World Records.
Joly Braime has been a magazine journalist, a guidebook and
website editor, and a freelance writer who has worked on
everything from financial books to articles about Fifty Shades
of Grey. He has been a Holmes obsessive since acquiring The
Complete Sherlock Holmes at the age of 11.
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 62 I really wouldn’t miss 90 Each new discovery
your case for the world furnishes a step
The Red-Headed League which leads on to
14 Steel true, blade straight the complete truth
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 68 The little things are The Adventure of the
infinitely the most Engineer’s Thumb
22 My name is Sherlock important
Holmes. It is my business A Case of Identity 94 I had formed my
to know what other conclusions as to the
people don’t know 70 There is nothing case before our client
Sherlock Holmes more deceptive than came into the room
an obvious fact The Adventure of the
26 I was a whetstone for his The Boscombe Noble Bachelor
mind. I stimulated him Valley Mystery
Dr. John Watson 96 There are women in
74 I am the last court whom the love of a
28 He sits motionless, of appeal lover extinguishes
like a spider in the The Five Orange Pips all other loves
centre of its web The Adventure of the
Professor James Moriarty 80 It is better to learn Beryl Coronet
wisdom late than
30 I am a practical man, never to learn it at all 98 Crime is common.
Mr. Holmes, and when I The Man with the Logic is rare
have got my evidence Twisted Lip The Adventure of the
I come to my conclusions Copper Beeches
Inspector G. Lestrade 82 In the larger and older
jewels every facet may
THE GREAT
stand for a bloody deed
THE EARLY
The Adventure of the DETECTIVE
ADVENTURES Blue Carbuncle
84 Violence does, in truth, 106 The real murderer is
36 There’s the scarlet recoil upon the violent standing immediately
thread of murder The Adventure of the behind you
running through the Speckled Band Silver Blaze
colourless skein of life
A Study in Scarlet 110 There is no part of
the body which varies
46 I never make exceptions. so much as the
An exception disproves human ear
the rule The Cardboard Box
The Sign of Four
112 Any truth is better
56 You see, but you than indefinite doubt
do not observe The Yellow Face
A Scandal in Bohemia
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114 Human nature is a 162 This empty house is my 192 Surely my deductions
strange mixture, Watson tree, and you are my tiger are simplicity itself
The Stockbroker’s Clerk The Adventure of the The Adventure of the
Empty House Golden Pince-Nez
116 And then in an instant
the key of the riddle 168 All my instincts are one 196 When a man is lost it is my
was in my hands way, and all the facts duty to ascertain his fate
The Gloria Scott are the other The Adventure of the
The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter
120 In my inmost heart I Norwood Builder
believed that I could 198 The game is afoot
succeed where others failed 170 I have the threads of this The Adventure of the
The Musgrave Ritual affair all in my hand Abbey Grange
The Adventure of the
126 The results show that the Dancing Men 202 It is a capital mistake
trap was skillfully baited to theorize in advance
The Reigate Squire 176 She thinks she does not of the facts
know the man; I am The Adventure of the
132 One of the strangest cases convinced she does Second Stain
which ever perplexed a The Adventure of the
man’s brain Solitary Cyclist
HOLMES TAKES
The Crooked Man
178 A criminal who was A BOW
134 I can read in a man’s eye capable of such a
when it is his own skin thought is a man whom
he is frightened for I should be proud to do 212 A great brain and a huge
The Resident Patient business with organization have been
The Adventure of the turned to the extinction
136 To the logician all things Priory School of one man
should be seen exactly The Valley of Fear
as they are 184 One should always look
The Greek Interpreter for a possible alternative, 222 The whole inexplicable
and provide against it tangle seemed to straighten
138 The most difficult crime The Adventure of out before me
to track is the one which Black Peter The Adventure of
is purposeless Wisteria Lodge
The Naval Treaty 186 By jove, Watson;
I’ve got it! 226 Different threads, but
142 Danger is part of my trade The Adventure of Charles leading to the same tangle
The Final Problem Augustus Milverton The Adventure of the Red Circle
188 There is a certain method 230 The London criminal is
A LEGEND
in the gentleman’s certainly a dull fellow
RETURNS eccentric proceedings The Adventure of the
The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans
Six Napoleons
152 There is nothing more 234 Well, Watson, we
stimulating than a case 190 Let us hear the suspicions. seem to have fallen
where everything goes I will look after the proofs upon evil days
against you The Adventure of the The Adventure of the
The Hound of the Baskervilles Three Students Dying Detective
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236 We simply can’t afford 266 Some people’s affability THE WORLD OF
to wait for the police is more deadly than the
SHERLOCK HOLMES
or to keep within the violence of coarser souls
four corners of the law The Adventure of the
The Disappearance of Illustrious Client
296 What do you say to a
Lady Frances Carfax
272 I am not the law, but I ramble through London?
240 I have seldom known represent justice so far The Victorian World
a case which at first as my feeble powers go
300 There is nothing
sight presented a more The Adventure of the
so unnatural as
singular problem Three Gables
the commonplace
The Adventure of the
Devil’s Foot 274 I see no more than you, Sherlock and Society
but I have trained myself
246 There’s an east wind to notice what I see 306 I have a turn both for
observation and for
coming, Watson The Adventure of the
deduction
His Last Bow Blanched Soldier
The Art of Deduction
278 I am an omnivorous
THE FINAL 310 There is nothing like
reader with a strangely
first-hand evidence
DEDUCTIONS retentive memory
Criminology and
for trifles
Forensic Science
The Adventure of the
252 This man has come for Lion’s Mane
316 You know my methods.
his own purpose, but
he may stay for mine 284 We reach. We grasp. Apply them
Crime Writing and
The Adventure of the And what is left in
Detective Fiction
Mazarin Stone our hands at the end?
A shadow
254 I can discover facts, The Adventure of the 324 What one man can invent,
another can discover
Watson, but I cannot Retired Colourman
The Fans of Sherlock Holmes
change them
The Problem of 286 Patient suffering is in
328 The best way of
Thor Bridge itself the most precious
successfully acting
of all lessons
258 When one tries to rise The Adventure of the a part is to be it
Sherlock on Stage and Screen
above nature one is Veiled Lodger
liable to fall below it
The Adventure of the 288 It is only the colourless, 336 The many faces of Holmes
Creeping Man uneventful case which
340 Holmes by other hands
is hopeless
260 The world is big The Adventure of
344 Conan Doyle’s other works
enough for us. No Shoscombe Old Place
ghosts need apply
The Adventure of the 346 INDEX
Sussex Vampire 352 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
262 There is some guilty
secret in the room
The Adventure of the
Three Garridebs