“It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write down these last words, in which I will pay tribute for the last time to the special gifts that disti...

“The July that followed my wedding was made memorable by three interesting affairs through which I had the privilege of being in the company of Sherlock Holm...

“In the character of my friend Sherlock Holmes I was constantly struck by one contradiction: although in thinking he was the neatest and most methodical pers...

“Soon after my marriage I acquired a practice in Paddington. Old Mr. Farquhar, from whom I bought it, was at one time a successful physician, but age and an ...

“Publishing these short essays about numerous investigations in which, thanks to the special talents of my friend, I had the opportunity to be involved as a ...

“In recording from time to time some curious incidents and interesting reminiscences relating to my long and intimate friendship with Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I ...

“Mrs. Hudson, Holmes's landlady, was a long-suffering woman. Not only was her apartment on the second floor haunted at all hours of the day and night by stra...

“Well, Mrs. Warren, I don’t see that you have any particular reason to worry, and I don’t understand why I, whose time is of some value, should interfere in ...

“I believed that The Adventure of Abbey Grange would be the last of the investigations of my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes that I would tell the public. This de...

“I have never seen my friend in better shape, both mentally and physically, than in 1895. His growing fame brought with it an immense practice, and I would b...

“In the spring of 1894, all of London was gripped by curiosity, and high society by grief, due to the murder of the high-born Ronald Eider under the most unu...