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1  "Don't get arresting me for the murder," he said.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
2  The murderer has written it with his or her own blood.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
3  There has been murder done, and the murderer was a man.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
4  There has been murder done, and the murderer was a man.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
5  Clearly the murderer had used it to remind his victim of some dead or absent woman.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
6  I glanced at Holmes on hearing the description of the murderer, which tallied so exactly with his own.
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.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
8  I knew now that I held the clue to the mystery in my hand, and all that remained was to secure the murderer.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
9  In all probability the murderer had a florid face, and the finger-nails of his right hand were remarkably long.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
10  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
11  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
12  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
13  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 ...
14  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
15  I had already come to the conclusion, since there were no signs of a struggle, that the blood which covered the floor had burst from the murderer's nose in his excitement.
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.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
17  I then proceeded to make a careful examination of the room, which confirmed me in my opinion as to the murderer's height, and furnished me with the additional details as to the Trichinopoly cigar and the length of his nails.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
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