- FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION
- Steel true, blade straight • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don’t know • Sherlock Holmes
- I was a whetstone for his mind. I stimulated him • Dr. John Watson
- He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web • Professor James Moriarty
- I am a practical man, Mr. Holmes, and when I have got my evidence I come to my conclusions • Inspector G. Lestrade
- THE EARLY ADVENTURES
- There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life • A Study in Scarlet
- I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule • The Sign of Four
- You see, but you do not observe • A Scandal in Bohemia
- I really wouldn’t miss your case for the world • The Red-Headed League
- The little things are infinitely the most important • A Case of Identity
- There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact • The Boscombe Valley Mystery
- I am the last court of appeal • The Five Orange Pips
- It is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all • The Man with the Twisted Lip
- In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a bloody deed • The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
- Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent • The Adventure of the Speckled Band
- Each new discovery furnishes a step which leads on to the complete truth • The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb
- I had formed my conclusions as to the case before our client came into the room • The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
- There are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all other loves • The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
- Crime is common. Logic is rare • The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
- THE GREAT DETECTIVE
- The real murderer is standing immediately behind you • Silver Blaze
- There is no part of the body which varies so much as the human ear • The Cardboard Box
- Any truth is better than indefinite doubt • The Yellow Face
- Human nature is a strange mixture, Watson • The Stockbroker’s Clerk
- And then in an instant the key of the riddle was in my hands • The Gloria Scott
- In my inmost heart I believed that I could succeed where others failed • The Musgrave Ritual
- The results show that the trap was skillfully baited • The Reigate Squire
- One of the strangest cases which ever perplexed a man’s brain • The Crooked Man
- I can read in a man’s eye when it is his own skin he is frightened for • The Resident Patient
- To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are • The Greek Interpreter
- The most difficult crime to track is the one which is purposeless • The Naval Treaty
- Danger is part of my trade • The Final Problem
- A LEGEND RETURNS
- There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you • The Hound of the Baskervilles
- This empty house is my tree, and you are my tiger • The Adventure of the Empty House
- All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other • The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
- I have the threads of this affair all in my hand • The Adventure of the Dancing Men
- She thinks she does not know the man; I am convinced she does • The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist
- A criminal who was capable of such a thought is a man whom I should be proud to do business with • The Adventure of the Priory School
- One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it • The Adventure of Black Peter
- By jove, Watson; I’ve got it! • The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
- There is a certain method in the gentleman’s eccentric proceedings • The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
- Let us hear the suspicions. I will look after the proofs • The Adventure of the Three Students
- Surely my deductions are simplicity itself • The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez
- When a man is lost it is my duty to ascertain his fate • The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter
- The game is afoot • The Adventure of the Abbey Grange
- It is a capital mistake to theorize in advance of the facts • The Adventure of the Second Stain
- HOLMES TAKES A BOW
- A great brain and a huge organization have been turned to the extinction of one man • The Valley of Fear
- The whole inexplicable tangle seemed to straighten out before me • The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge
- Different threads, but leading to the same tangle • The Adventure of the Red Circle
- The London criminal is certainly a dull fellow • The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans
- Well, Watson, we seem to have fallen upon evil days • The Adventure of the Dying Detective
- We simply can’t afford to wait for the police or to keep within the four corners of the law • The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
- I have seldom known a case which at first sight presented a more singular problem • The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot
- There’s an east wind coming, Watson • His Last Bow
- THE FINAL DEDUCTIONS
- This man has come for his own purpose, but he may stay for mine • The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
- I can discover facts, Watson, but I cannot change them • The Problem of Thor Bridge
- When one tries to rise above nature one is liable to fall below it • The Adventure of the Creeping Man
- The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply • The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire
- There is some guilty secret in the room • The Adventure of the Three Garridebs
- Some people’s affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls • The Adventure of the Illustrious Client
- I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go • The Adventure of the Three Gables
- I see no more than you, but I have trained myself to notice what I see • The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier
- I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles • The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane
- We reach. We grasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow • The Adventure of the Retired Colourman
- Patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons • The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger
- It is only the colourless, uneventful case which is hopeless • The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place
- THE WORLD OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
- What do you say to a ramble through London? • The Victorian World
- There is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace • Sherlock and Society
- I have a turn both for observation and for deduction • The Art of Deduction
- There is nothing like first-hand evidence • Criminology and Forensic Science
- You know my methods. Apply them • Crime Writing and Detective Fiction
- What one man can invent, another can discover • The Fans of Sherlock Holmes
- The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it • Sherlock on Stage and Screen
- The many faces of Holmes
- Holmes by other hands
- Conan Doyle’s other works
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- COPYRIGHT
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Dorling Kindersley would like to thank Andrew Heritage for his assistance in planning and commissioning the guide; Antara Moitra, Vineetha Mokkil, Tejaswita Payal, and Ira Pundeer for proofreading; Helen Peters for the index; Sam Atkinson, Hannah Bowen, Lizzie Davey, Helen Fewster, Ashwin Khurana, Stuart Neilson, Andy Szudek, and Cressida Tuson for editorial assistance; and Stephen Bere for design assistance.
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