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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Classic Reprint)
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Classic Reprint Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA I To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love-for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise, but admirably ... more »balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen; but, as a lover, he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer-excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power
Table of Contents
I-A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA3; II-THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE29; III-A CASE OF IDENTITY56; IV-THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY76; V-THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS104; VI-THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP126; VII-THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE153; VIII-THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND 176; IX-THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB205; X-THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR229; XL-THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET253; XII-THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES280
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