The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Twelve stories of the detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in The Strand Magazine, among them “A Scandal in Bohemia” and “The Red-Headed League”.

Start reading12 stories, about 106,000 words

Famous quotes

• To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name.

  A Scandal in BohemiaIn context

• You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.

  A Scandal in BohemiaIn context

  • Thinking

• 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.

  A Scandal in BohemiaIn context

  • Facts
  • Thinking

• Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

  A Case of IdentityIn context

  • Life & Death

• It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

  A Case of IdentityIn context

  • Wisdom

• There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact

  The Boscombe Valley MysteryIn context

  • Facts
  • Truth & Lies

• A man should keep his little brain-attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

  The Five Orange PipsIn context

  • Knowledge

• My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don’t know.

  The Adventure of the Blue CarbuncleIn context

  • Knowledge
  • Work

Contents

1. A Scandal in Bohemia
2. The Red-Headed League
3. A Case of Identity
4. The Boscombe Valley Mystery
5. The Five Orange Pips
6. The Man with the Twisted Lip
7. The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
8. The Adventure of the Speckled Band
9. The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb
10. The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
11. The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
12. The Adventure of the Copper Beeches