The case-book of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

A couple of days later my friend tossed across to me a copy of the bi-weekly North Surrey Observer. Under a series of flaming headlines, which began with "The Haven Horror" and ended with "Brilliant Police Investigation," there was a packed column of print which gave the first consecutive account of the affair. The concluding paragraph is typical of the whole. It ran thus:

"The remarkable acumen by which Inspector MacKinnon deduced from the smell of paint that some other smell, that of gas, for example, might be concealed; the bold deduction that the strongroom might also be the death-chamber, and the subsequent inquiry which led to the discovery of the bodies in a disused well, cleverly concealed by a dog-kennel, should live in the history of crime as a standing example of the intelligence of our professional detectives."

"Well, well, MacKinnon is a good fellow," said Holmes, with a tolerant smile. "You can file it in our archives, Watson. Some day the true story may be told."

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By A. CONAN DOYLE

THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.
THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.
THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES.
MICAH CLARKE.
THE CAPTAIN OF THE POLE STAR.
THE SIGN OF FOUR.
THE WHITE COMPANY
THE REFUGEES.
THE STARK MUNRO LETTERS.
THE EXPLOITS OF BRIGADIER GERARD.
RODNEY STONE.
UNCLE BERNAC.
THE TRAGEDY OF THE "KOROSKO."
A DUET, WITH AN OCCASIONAL CHORUS.
THE GREEN FLAG.
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES.
THE ADVENTURES OF GERARD.
SIR NIGEL.
THROUGH THE MAGIC DOOR.
ROUND THE FIRE STORIES.
THE LAST GALLEY.
THE LOST WORLD.
ROUND THE RED LAMP.
THE VALLEY OF FEAR.
HIS LAST BOW.
DANGER! AND OTHER STORIES.
THE FIRM OF GIRDLESTONE.
TALES OF ADVENTURE AND MEDICAL LIFE.
TALES OF LONG AGO.
TALES OF PIRATES AND BLUE WATER.
TALES OF THE RING AND CAMP.
TALES OF TERROR AND MYSTERY.
TALES OF TWILIGHT AND THE UNSEEN.
SONGS OF ACTION.
SONGS OF THE ROAD.
THE GUARDS CAME THROUGH, AND OTHER POEMS.
POEMS: COLLECTED EDITION.
THREE OF THEM: A REMINISCENCE.

THE MYSTERY OF JOAN OF ARC. BY LÉON
DENIS. Translated from the French by
A. CONAN DOYLE.