Excerpts from the Book 'The Casebook Of Sherlock Holmes':

... you so rapidly gambled away. You are dreaming! And the complete life history of Miss Minnie Warrender. Tut! You will make nothing of that! Plenty ...
... slip round with the stone to Lime Street and tell him. But the false bottom ain't ready. Well, he must take it as it is and chance it. There's ...
... chair. I am a rather busy man, Mr. Gibson, said he, and I have no time or taste for aimless conversations. I wish you goodmorning. Our visitor had ...
... had found in her something more powerful than himself - something which could control and guide him. One felt, too, as one looked at the strong, ...
... has been putting two and two together, said Holmes as we walked hotelward. He struck me as having a particularly clear and logical brain from ...
... a loving mother. Why, then, should she wound her own dear little baby? He told the nurse that she was dreaming, that her suspicions were those ...
... What can I do? How am I to go to the police with such a story? And yet the kiddies have got to be protected. Is it madness, Mr. Holmes? Is it something ...
... can be no harm in that. Well, that is just how it stands, said Holmes. And now, sir, since you are here, we had best have a clear account from your ...
... turned upon us with a glare of baffled rage, which gradually softened into a rather shamefaced grin as he realized that two pistols were pointed at his head. Well, ...
... which he had brought up in the shape of a slim, flame-like young woman with a pale, intense face, youthful, and yet so worn with s v 1/2 ? in and ...
... brooded over it. Then this assault upon me gave me the chance of letting the Baron think that no precautions need be taken against me. That was all ...
... such a man. I have never known anyone so vitally alive. He lived intensely -every fibre of him! Too intensely, Mr. Holmes. That was the ruin of him. ...
... I liked also - a gentle little white mouse of a woman. It was only the colonel himself whom I barred. We had a bit of barney right away, and I ...
... abroad rather than keep him concealed at home. I could see no explanation for such a line of conduct. Insanity was more plausible. The presence ...
... Are there not subtle forces at work of which we know little? Are we assured that the apprehension from which this young man has no doubt suffered ...
... than a shadow - misery. Is he one of your clients? Well, I suppose I may call him so. He has been sent on by the Yard. Just as medical men occasionally ...
... human nature, Dr. Watson - the black ingratitude of it all! When did I ever refuse one of her requests? Was ever a woman so pampered? And that young ...
... on me in an instant. Leonardo could have saved me. If he had rushed forward and struck the beast with his club he might have cowed it. But the man ...
... on the left. Those brown blobs in the centre are undoubtedly glue. Well, I said, laughing, I am prepared to take your word for it. Does anything ...
... reflected back from the coffin-plates, many of them adorned with the griffin and coronet of this old family which carried its honours even to the gate ...