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1  'There is no murder, I answered.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN ...
2  "Don't get arresting me for the murder," he said.
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ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
3  There has been murder done, and the murderer was a man.
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ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
4  The tall one, then, had done the murder, if murder there was.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
5  Robbery had not been the object of the murder, for nothing was taken.
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ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
6  "There will be no more murders," he said at last, stopping abruptly and facing us.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
7  Every time that I closed my eyes I saw before me the distorted baboon-like countenance of the murdered man.
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ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
8  Then, of course, this blood belongs to a second individual, presumably the murderer, if murder has been committed.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
9  Then, of course, this blood belongs to a second individual, presumably the murderer, if murder has been committed.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
10  The murder of Stangerson was an incident which was entirely unexpected, but which could hardly in any case have been prevented.
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ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
11  It chanced, however, that Drebber, looking from his window, had recognized the vagrant in the street, and had read murder in his eyes.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
12  We were ushered into a small chamber where a police Inspector noted down our prisoner's name and the names of the men with whose murder he had been charged.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN ...
13  There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
14  This murder had, on the contrary, been done most deliberately, and the perpetrator had left his tracks all over the room, showing that he had been there all the time.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
15  The public," it said, "have lost a sensational treat through the sudden death of the man Hope, who was suspected of the murder of Mr. Enoch Drebber and of Mr. Joseph Stangerson.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
16  All looked so peaceful and happy, the rustling trees and the broad silent stretch of grain-land, that it was difficult to realize that the spirit of murder lurked through it all.
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ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
17  After alluding airily to the Vehmgericht, aqua tofana, Carbonari, the Marchioness de Brinvilliers, the Darwinian theory, the principles of Malthus, and the Ratcliff Highway murders, the article concluded by admonishing the Government and advocating a closer watch over foreigners in England.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
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