Sherlock Holmes (Stoll film series)From 1. Stoll Pictures produced a series of silentblack- and- white films based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. Forty- five short films and two feature- length films were produced. Watson with the exception of the final film, The Sign of Four, where Willis was replaced with Arthur Cullin. Consequently, Norwood holds the record for most appearances as Sherlock Holmes in film. Elvey was replaced as director by George Ridgwell. The series was successful enough to spawn one last feature- length film, The Sign of Four released later in 1. The Sign of Four featured a return of Elvey to the helm and the replacement of Hubert Willis with Arthur Cullin as Watson. Elvey considered Willis too old to play a romantic interest for Mary Morstan. Sainstbury's Holmes. Short films. He has the brooding eye which excites expectation and he has also a quite unrivaled power of disguise. My only criticism of the films is that they introduce telephones, motorcars and other luxuries of which the Victorian Holmes never dreamed. See: Abbadie, Arnauld d', 1815-1894? Undergrad curriculum march 2011 results. 33000+ free ebooks online. Did you know that you can help us produce ebooks by proof-reading just one page a day? Go to: Distributed Proofreaders. Currently this archive contains 2,783 stories from 905 authors. Popular authors include: Alexandre Dumas . A Sherlock Holmes Omnibus. A SHERLOCK HOLMES OMNIBUSby SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, 1. Project Gutenberg of Australia e. Book No. 0. 20. 04. Appendix F for info. A STUDY IN SCARLET (1. Part I. The Science of Deduction. Ch III. The Lauriston Garden Mystery. Ch IV. What John Rance Had to Tell. Ch V. Our Advertisement Brings a Visitor. Ch VI. Tobias Gregson Shows What He.. Ch VII. Light in the Darkness. Part II. The Country of the Saints. Ch I. On the Great Alkali Plain. Ch II. The Flower of Utah. Ch III. John Ferrier Talks with the Prophet. Ch IV. A Flight for Life. Ch V. The Avenging Angels. Ch VI. A Continuation of the.. Ch VII. The Conclusion. THE SIGN OF THE FOUR (1. Ch I. The Science of Deduction. Ch II. The Statement of the Case. Ch III. In Quest of a Solution. Ch IV. The Story of the Bald- Headed Man. Ch V. The Tragedy of Pondicherry Lodge. Ch VI. Sherlock Holmes Gives a.. Ch VII. The Episode of the Barrel. Ch VIII. The Baker Street Irregulars. Ch IX. A Break in the Chain. Ch X. The End of the Islander. Ch XI. The Great Agra Treasure. Ch XII. The Strange Story of Jonathan.. The Curse of the Baskervilles. Ch III. Sir Henry Baskerville. Ch V. Three Broken Threads. Ch VI. Baskerville Hall. Ch VII. The Stapletons of Merripit House. Ch VIII. The Light Upon the Moor. Ch X. Extract from the Diary of Dr. The Man on the Tor. Ch XII. Death on the Moor. Ch XIII. Fixing the Nets. Ch XIV. The Hound of the Baskervilles. Ch XV. A Retrospection. THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMESThe Empty House, 1. The Norwood Builder, 1. The Dancing Men, 1. The Solitary Cyclist, 1. The Priory School, 1. The Adventure of Black Peter, 1. Charles Augustus Milverton, 1. The Six Napoleons, 1. The Three Students, 1. The Golden Pince- Nez, 1. The Missing Three- Quarter, 1. The Abbey Grange, 1. The Second Stain, 1. THE VALLEY OF FEAR (1. Part I. The Tragedy of Birlstone. Ch I. Sherlock Holmes Discourses. Ch III. The Tragedy of Birlstone. Ch IV. The People of the Drama. Ch VI. A Dawning Light. Ch VII. Lodge 3. 41, Vermissa. Ch IV. The Valley of Fear. Ch V. The Darkest Hour. Ch VI. The Trapping of Birdy Edwards. HIS LAST BOWThe Cardboard Box, 1. The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge, 1. Ch I. The Singular Experience of Mr.. Ch II. The Tiger of San Pedro. The Bruce- Partington Plans, 1. The Devil's Foot, 1. The Red Circle, 1. Lady Frances Carfax, 1. The Dying Detective, 1. His Last Bow, 1. 91. THE CASEBOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMESPreface. The Mazarin Stone, 1. The Problem of Thor Bridge, 1. The Creeping Man, 1. The Sussex Vampire, 1. The Three Garridebs, 1. The Illustrious Client, 1. The Blanched Soldier, 1. The Retired Colourman, 1. The Three Gables, 1. The Lion's Mane, 1. The Veiled Lodger, 1. Shoscombe Old Place, 1. APPENDIX A. ABOUT THIS EDITIONAPPENDIX B. TEXTUAL SOURCESAPPENDIX C. TEXTUAL CORRECTIONSAPPENDIX D. TECHNICAL MATTERSAPPENDIX E. HOLMES' CHRONOLOGYAPPENDIX F. WATSON, M. D., late of the Army Medical Department.) . SHERLOCK HOLMESIN the year 1. I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon. The regiment was stationed in India at the time, and before I could join it, the second Afghan war had broken out. On landing at Bombay, I learned that my corps had advanced through the passes, and was already deep in the enemy's country. I followed, however, with many other officers who were in the same situation as myself, and succeeded in reaching Candahar in safety, where I found my regiment, and at once entered upon my new duties. The campaign brought honours and promotion to many, but for me it had nothing but misfortune and disaster. I was removed from my brigade and attached to the Berkshires, with whom I served at the fatal battle of Maiwand. There I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery. I should have fallen into the hands of the murderous Ghazis had it not been for the devotion and courage shown by Murray, my orderly, who threw me across a pack- horse, and succeeded in bringing me safely to the British lines. Worn with pain, and weak from the prolonged hardships which I had undergone, I was removed, with a great train of wounded sufferers, to the base hospital at Peshawar. Here I rallied, and had already improved so far as to be able to walk about the wards, and even to bask a little upon the verandah, when I was struck down by enteric fever, that curse of our Indian possessions. For months my life was despaired of, and when at last I came to myself and became convalescent, I was so weak and emaciated that a medical board determined that not a day should be lost in sending me back to England. I was dispatched, accordingly, in the troopship . Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. There I stayed for some time at a private hotel in the Strand, leading a comfortless, meaningless existence, and spending such money as I had, considerably more freely than I ought. So alarming did the state of my finances become, that I soon realized that I must either leave the metropolis and rusticate somewhere in the country, or that I must make a complete alteration in my style of living. Choosing the latter alternative, I began by making up my mind to leave the hotel, and to take up my quarters in some less pretentious and less expensive domicile. On the very day that I had come to this conclusion, I was standing at the Criterion Bar, when some one tapped me on the shoulder, and turning round I recognized young Stamford, who had been a dresser under me at Barts. The sight of a friendly face in the great wilderness of London is a pleasant thing indeed to a lonely man. In old days Stamford had never been a particular crony of mine, but now I hailed him with enthusiasm, and he, in his turn, appeared to be delighted to see me. In the exuberance of my joy, I asked him to lunch with me at the Holborn, and we started off together in a hansom. He was bemoaning himself this morning because he could not get someone to go halves with him in some nice rooms which he had found, and which were too much for his purse. I should prefer having a partner to being alone. He is a little queer in his ideas - - an enthusiast in some branches of science. As far as I know he is a decent fellow enough. I believe he is well up in anatomy, and he is a first- class chemist; but, as far as I know, he has never taken out any systematic medical classes. His studies are very desultory and eccentric, but he has amassed a lot of out- of- the way knowledge which would astonish his professors. I am not strong enough yet to stand much noise or excitement. I had enough of both in Afghanistan to last me for the remainder of my natural existence. How could I meet this friend of yours? If you like, we shall drive round together after luncheon. You proposed this arrangement, so you must not hold me responsible. Is this fellow's temper so formidable, or what is it? Don't be mealy- mouthed about it. I could imagine his giving a friend a little pinch of the latest vegetable alkaloid, not out of malevolence, you understand, but simply out of a spirit of inquiry in order to have an accurate idea of the effects. To do him justice, I think that he would take it himself with the same readiness. He appears to have a passion for definite and exact knowledge. When it comes to beating the subjects in the dissecting- rooms with a stick, it is certainly taking rather a bizarre shape. I saw him at it with my own eyes. Heaven knows what the objects of his studies are. But here we are, and you must form your own impressions about him. It was familiar ground to me, and I needed no guiding as we ascended the bleak stone staircase and made our way down the long corridor with its vista of whitewashed wall and dun- coloured doors. Near the further end a low arched passage branched away from it and led to the chemical laboratory. This was a lofty chamber, lined and littered with countless bottles. Broad, low tables were scattered about, which bristled with retorts, test- tubes, and little Bunsen lamps, with their blue flickering flames. There was only one student in the room, who was bending over a distant table absorbed in his work. At the sound of our steps he glanced round and sprang to his feet with a cry of pleasure. No doubt you see the significance of this discovery of mine? Don't you see that it gives us an infallible test for blood stains. You perceive that the resulting mixture has the appearance of pure water. The proportion of blood cannot be more than one in a million. I have no doubt, however, that we shall be able to obtain the characteristic reaction. In an instant the contents assumed a dull mahogany colour, and a brownish dust was precipitated to the bottom of the glass jar.! The old Guiacum test was very clumsy and uncertain. So is the microscopic examination for blood corpuscles. The latter is valueless if the stains are a few hours old. Now, this appears to act as well whether the blood is old or new. Had this test been invented, there are hundreds of men now walking the earth who would long ago have paid the penalty of their crimes. A man is suspected of a crime months perhaps after it has been committed. His linen or clothes are examined, and brownish stains discovered upon them. Are they blood stains, or mud stains, or rust stains, or fruit stains, or what are they? That is a question which has puzzled many an expert, and why? Because there was no reliable test. Now we have the Sherlock Holmes' test, and there will no longer be any difficulty. He would certainly have been hung had this test been in existence. Then there was Mason of Bradford, and the notorious Muller, and Lefevre of Montpellier, and Samson of new Orleans. I could name a score of cases in which it would have been decisive. Call it the `Police News of the Past.'. You don't mind the smell of strong tobacco, I hope?
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