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1  A man is suspected of a crime months perhaps after it has been committed.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  "You seem to be a walking calendar of crime," said Stamford with a laugh.
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ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
3  "There are no crimes and no criminals in these days," he said, querulously.
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ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
4  The Daily News observed that there was no doubt as to the crime being a political one.
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ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
5  Whatever the motives of these extraordinary crimes, robbery is certainly not one of them.
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ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
6  He is after the secretary Stangerson, who had no more to do with the crime than the babe unborn.
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ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
7  The Daily Telegraph remarked that in the history of crime there had seldom been a tragedy which presented stranger features.
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ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
8  After the lapse of time that has passed since their crime, it was impossible for me to secure a conviction against them in any court.
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ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN ...
9  They lay all the evidence before me, and I am generally able, by the help of my knowledge of the history of crime, to set them straight.
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ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
10  No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.
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ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
11  The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn.
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ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
12  There was something so methodical and so incomprehensible about the deeds of this unknown assassin, that it imparted a fresh ghastliness to his crimes.
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ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
13  I took the marriage ring from her dead finger, and I vowed that his dying eyes should rest upon that very ring, and that his last thoughts should be of the crime for which he was punished.
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ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN ...
14  The details of the case will probably be never known now, though we are informed upon good authority that the crime was the result of an old standing and romantic feud, in which love and Mormonism bore a part.
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ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION