日期：2023-04-19 Chapter VII. The Trapping of Birdy Edwards As McMurdo had said, the house in which he lived was a lonely one and very well suited for such a crime as they had planned. It was on the extreme fringe of the town and stood well back from the road. In an... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-19 Chapter VI. Danger It was the height of the reign of terror. McMurdo, who had already been appointed Inner Deacon, with every prospect of some day succeeding McGinty as Bodymaster, was now so necessary to the councils of his comrades that nothing wa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-19 Chapter V. The Darkest Hour If anything had been needed to give an impetus to Jack McMurdos popularity among his fellows it would have been his arrest and acquittal. That a man on the very night of joining the lodge should have done something which... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-19 Chapter IV. The Valley of Fear When McMurdo awoke next morning he had good reason to remember his initiation into the lodge. His head ached with the effect of the drink, and his arm, where he had been branded, was hot and swollen. Having his own pec... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-19 Chapter III. Lodge 341, Vermissa On the day following the evening which had contained so many exciting events, McMurdo moved his lodgings from old Jacob Shafters and took up his quarters at the Widow MacNamaras on the extreme outskirts of the town.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-19 Chapter II. The Bodymaster McMurdo was a man who made his mark quickly. Wherever he was the folk around soon knew it. Within a week he had become infinitely the most important person at Shafters. There were ten or a dozen boarders there; but they we... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-19 PART II. The Scowrers Chapter I. The Man It was the fourth of February in the year 1875. It had been a severe winter, and the snow lay deep in the gorges of the Gilmerton Mountains. The steam ploughs had, however, kept the railroad open, and the eve... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-19 Chapter VII. The Solution Next morning, after breakfast, we found Inspector MacDonald and White Mason seated in close consultation in the small parlour of the local police sergeant. On the table in front of them were piled a number of letters and te... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-19 Chapter VI. A Dawning Light The three detectives had many matters of detail into which to inquire; so I returned alone to our modest quarters at the village inn. But before doing so I took a stroll in the curious old-world garden which flanked the h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-13 Chapter V. The People Of the Drama Have you seen all you want of the study? asked White Mason as we reentered the house. For the time, said the inspector, and Holmes nodded. Then perhaps you would now like to hear the evidence of some of the people... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-13 Chapter IV. Darkness At three in the morning the chief Sussex detective, obeying the urgent call from Sergeant Wilson of Birlstone, arrived from headquarters in a light dog-cart behind a breathless trotter. By the five-forty train in the morning he... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-13 Chapter III. The Tragedy of Birlstone Now for a moment I will ask leave to remove my own insignificant personality and to describe events which occurred before we arrived upon the scene by the light of knowledge which came to us afterwards. Only in... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-13 Chapter II. Sherlock Holmes Discourses It was one of those dramatic moments for which my friend existed. It would be an overstatement to say that he was shocked or even excited by the amazing announcement. Without having a tinge of cruelty in his si... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-13 The Valley of Fear PART I. The Tragedy of Birlstone Chapter I. The Warning I am inclined to think said I. I should do so, Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently. I believe that I am one of the most long-suffering of mortals; but Ill admit that I was a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-13 His Last Bow An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle It was nine oclock at night upon the second of Augustthe most terrible August in the history of the world. One might have thought already that Gods curse hung heavy over a degenerate wor... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-13 The Devils Foot The Adventure of the Devils Foot Arthur Conan Doyle In recording from time to time some of the curious experiences and interesting recollections which I associate with my long and intimate friendship with Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I have... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-13 The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax Arthur Conan Doyle But why Turkish? asked Mr. Sherlock Holmes, gazing fixedly at my boots. I was reclining in a cane-backed chair at the moment, and my protruded feet had attracted his ever-active attention.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-13 The Dying Detective Arthur Conan Doyle Mrs. Hudson, the landlady of Sherlock Holmes, was a long-suffering woman. Not only was her first-floor flat invaded at all hours by throngs of singular and often undesirable characters but her remarkable lodger... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-13 The Bruce-Partington Plans Arthur Conan Doyle In the third week of November, in the year 1895, a dense yellow fog settled down upon London. From the Monday to the Thursday I doubt whether it was ever possible from our windows in Baker Street to see... 阅读全文>>

日期：2023-04-13 Chapter II. Part Two As we walked rapidly down Howe Street I glanced back at the building which we had left. There, dimly outlined at the top window, I could see the shadow of a head, a womans head, gazing tensely, rigidly, out into the night, waiti... 阅读全文>>