Classic detectives

“The mysterious companion of the Thames, a sparkling haze, both dense and transparent at once, brightened and sparkled more and more as the sun rose over Wes...

“When Flambeau took leave from his office in Westminster, he spent the month in a sailing boat, so small that it was most often used as a rowing boat. In add...

“If you meet a member of the privileged club “Twelve Faithful Anglers” who has arrived at the Vernoy Hotel for the annual club dinner, then when he takes off...

“The sweet shop on the corner of two steep streets in Camden Town glowed like the end of a dying cigar in the cool blue twilight. Or rather, like a dying fir...

“Both of us, Holmes and I, had a weakness for Turkish baths. And when, in a pleasant languor, we smoked in the drying room, I found him less restrained and m...

“My friend Watson's ideas, although limited, are unusually sticky. For a long time he pestered me with demands that I write about some of my cases myself. Pe...

“Doctor Watson was very pleased to be back in the untidy room on the second floor of the house on Baker Street, in the room where so many amazing adventures ...

“I do not think that any other of my adventures with Mr. Sherlock Holmes would have begun so suddenly or so dramatically as the one I associate with Three At...

“Somewhere in the vaults of the Cox and Co Bank in Charing Cross rests a battered, battered tin pouch with my name “John H. Watson D.M., Servant.” in the Ind...

“Surprisingly, a problem, undoubtedly not inferior in mystery and unusualness to the most difficult that I have encountered during my long professional caree...

“When we consider that Mr. Sherlock Holmes has practiced his art tirelessly for twenty-three years, and that during seventeen of those years I have been give...

“In the spring of 1894, all of London was gripped by curiosity, and high society by grief, due to the murder of the high-born Ronald Eider under the most unu...