1 Perhaps it was some mischievous idea of setting the police upon a wrong track, for I felt light-hearted and cheerful.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN ... 2 Gregson and Lestrade seemed to be far from satisfied by this assurance, or by the depreciating allusion to the detective police.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS 3 I telegraphed to the head of the police at Cleveland, limiting my enquiry to the circumstances connected with the marriage of Enoch Drebber.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION 4 As to poor Lestrade's discovery it was simply a blind intended to put the police upon a wrong track, by suggesting Socialism and secret societies.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL 5 "If there's a vacant place for a chief of the police, I reckon you are the man for it," he said, gazing with undisguised admiration at my fellow-lodger.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN ... 6 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 DoyleContextHighlight In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN ... 7 After leaving the house he discovered his loss and hurried back, but found the police already in possession, owing to his own folly in leaving the candle burning.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR 8 There were many marks of footsteps upon the wet clayey soil, but since the police had been coming and going over it, I was unable to see how my companion could hope to learn anything from it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY 9 "It's the Baker Street division of the detective police force," said my companion, gravely; and as he spoke there rushed into the room half a dozen of the dirtiest and most ragged street Arabs that ever I clapped eyes on.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO 10 If the case has had no other effect, it, at least, brings out in the most striking manner the efficiency of our detective police force, and will serve as a lesson to all foreigners that they will do wisely to settle their feuds at home, and not to carry them on to British soil.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION 11 The garden was bounded by a three-foot brick wall with a fringe of wood rails upon the top, and against this wall was leaning a stalwart police constable, surrounded by a small knot of loafers, who craned their necks and strained their eyes in the vain hope of catching some glimpse of the proceedings within.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContextHighlight In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY