“When I look through my notes and records of the investigations that Sherlock Holmes conducted between the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two and ninety, I find myself faced with a choice from so many cases containing the most curious and rare features that it is not so easy to decide, which ones to stop at and which ones to put aside. However, some have already gained fame thanks to newspapers, while others have not given my friend the opportunity to use their special talents, which these notes are intended to illustrate...”