1 Holmes was certainly not a difficult man to live with.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION 2 Why, man, it is the most practical medico-legal discovery for years.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES 3 A man is suspected of a crime months perhaps after it has been committed.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES 4 If I am to lodge with anyone, I should prefer a man of studious and quiet habits.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES 5 His chin, too, had the prominence and squareness which mark the man of determination.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION 6 No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION 7 The train of reasoning ran, 'Here is a gentleman of a medical type, but with the air of a military man.'
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION 8 The sight of a friendly face in the great wilderness of London is a pleasant thing indeed to a lonely man.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES 9 Surely no man would work so hard or attain such precise information unless he had some definite end in view.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION 10 The writer claimed by a momentary expression, a twitch of a muscle or a glance of an eye, to fathom a man's inmost thoughts.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION 11 During the first week or so we had no callers, and I had begun to think that my companion was as friendless a man as I was myself.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION 12 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.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION 13 Again I had an opportunity of asking him a point blank question, and again my delicacy prevented me from forcing another man to confide in me.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION 14 Let him, on meeting a fellow-mortal, learn at a glance to distinguish the history of the man, and the trade or profession to which he belongs.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION 15 You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION 16 Its somewhat ambitious title was "The Book of Life," and it attempted to show how much an observant man might learn by an accurate and systematic examination of all that came in his way.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION 17 The reader may set me down as a hopeless busybody, when I confess how much this man stimulated my curiosity, and how often I endeavoured to break through the reticence which he showed on all that concerned himself.
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