1 I know your methods, sir, and I applied them.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER 2 At the same time, Stanley Hopkins's methods do not commend themselves to me.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER 3 I am a methodical man, you see, and you never know what turn events might take afterwards.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS 4 I would only observe that there is a certain method in the gentleman's eccentric proceedings.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS 5 And I even attempted, more than once, for my own private satisfaction, to employ his methods in their solution, though with indifferent success.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 6 His method is as follows: He allows it to be known that he is prepared to pay very high sums for letters which compromise people of wealth and position.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON 7 Well, well, you have your own methods, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, and it is not for me to say a word against them, but I think I have done a better day's work than you.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS 8 Familiar as I was with my friend's methods, it was not difficult for me to follow his deductions, and to observe the untidiness of attire, the sheaf of legal papers, the watch-charm, and the breathing which had prompted them.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER 9 I recognized him at once as Stanley Hopkins, a young police inspector, for whose future Holmes had high hopes, while he in turn professed the admiration and respect of a pupil for the scientific methods of the famous amateur.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER 10 This resolution of mine was not due to any lack of material, since I have notes of many hundreds of cases to which I have never alluded, nor was it caused by any waning interest on the part of my readers in the singular personality and unique methods of this remarkable man.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In XIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAIN 11 For my own part, I had followed step by step the methods by which he had traced the various windings of this complex case, and, though I could not yet perceive the goal which we would reach, I understood clearly that Holmes expected this grotesque criminal to make an attempt upon the two remaining busts, one of which, I remembered, was at Chiswick.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS