日期：2023-05-16 Chapter 7 It was my luck to have a few good teachers in my youth, men and women who came into my dark head and lit a match. One of these was Mr. Satish Kumar, my biology teacher at Petit Seminaire and an active Communist who was always hoping Tamil... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-16 Chapter 6 Hes an excellent cook. His overheated house is always smelling of something delicious. His spice rack looks like an apothecarys shop. When he opens his refrigerator or his cupboards, there are many brand names I dont recognize; in fact, I... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-16 Chapter 5 My name isnt the end of the story about my name. When your name is Bob no one asks you, How do you spell that? Not so with Piscine Molitor Patel. Some thought it was P. Singh and that I was a Sikh, and they wondered why I wasnt wearing a t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-16 Chapter 4 Our good old nation was just seven years old as a republic when it became bigger by a small territory. Pondicherry entered the Union of India on November 1, 1954. One civic achievement called for another. A portion of the grounds of the Po... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-16 Chapter 3 I was named after a swimming pool. Quite peculiar considering my parents never took to water. One of my fathers earliest business contacts was Francis Adirubasamy. He became a good friend of the family. I called him Mamaji, mama being the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-16 Chapter 2 He lives in Scarborough. Hes a small, slim man - no more than five foot five. Dark hair, dark eyes. Hair greying at the temples. Cant be older than forty. Pleasing coffee-coloured complexion. Mild fall weather, yet puts on a big winter par... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-05-16 Chapter 1 My suffering left me sad and gloomy. Academic study and the steady, mindful practice of religion slowly wrought me back to life. I have kept up with what some people would consider my strange religious practices. After one year of high sch... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-19 The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes had been bending for a long time over a low-power microscope. Now he straightened himself up and looked round at me in triumph. It is glue, Watson, said he. Unquestionably it is... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-19 The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger Arthur Conan Doyle When one considers that Mr. Sherlock Holmes was in active practice for twenty-three years, and that during seventeen of these I was allowed to cooperate with him and to keep notes of his doings,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-19 The Adventure of the Retired Colourman Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes was in a melancholy and philosophic mood that morning. His alert practical nature was subject to such reactions. Did you see him? he asked. You mean the old fellow who has jus... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-19 The Adventure of the Lions Mane Arthur Conan Doyle It is a most singular thing that a problem which was certainly as abstruse and unusual as any which I have faced in my long professional career should have come to me after my retirement, and be bro... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-19 The Blanched Soldier Arthur Conan Doyle The ideas of my friend Watson, though limited, are exceedingly pertinacious. For a long time he has worried me to write an experience of my own. Perhaps I have rather invited this persecution, since I have oft... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-19 The Adventure of the Three Gables Arthur Conan Doyle I dont think that any of my adventures with Mr. Sherlock Holmes opened quite so abruptly, or so dramatically, as that which I associate with The Three Gables. I had not seen Holmes for some days a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-19 The Illustrious Client Arthur Conan Doyle It cant hurt now, was Mr. Sherlock Holmess comment when, for the tenth time in as many years, I asked his leave to reveal the following narrative. So it was that at last I obtained permission to put on recor... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-19 The Adventure of the Three Garridebs Arthur Conan Doyle It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-19 The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire Arthur Conan Doyle Holmes had read carefully a note which the last post had brought him. Then, with the dry chuckle which was his nearest approach to a laugh, he tossed it over to me. For a mixture of the modern a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-19 The Adventure of the Creeping Man Arthur Conan Doyle Mr. Sherlock Holmes was always of opinion that I should publish the singular facts connected with Professor Presbury, if only to dispel once for all the ugly rumours which some twenty years ago ag... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-19 The Problem of Thor Bridge Arthur Conan Doyle Somewhere in the vaults of the bank of Cox and Co., at Charing Cross, there is a travel-worn and battered tin dispatch-box with my name, John H. Watson, M.D., Late Indian Army, painted upon the lid. It i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-19 The Adventure Of The Mazarin Stone Arthur Conan Doyle It was pleasant to Dr. Watson to find himself once more in the untidy room of the first floor in Baker Street which had been the starting-point of so many remarkable adventures. He looked round h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-19 Chapter VIII. Epilogue The police trial had passed, in which the case of John Douglas was referred to a higher court. So had the Quarter Sessions, at which he was acquitted as having acted in self-defense. Get him out of England at any cost, wrote H... 阅读全文>>