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Lestrade felt his heart fall through his rib-slats and hit the floor. "Bradstreet, please tell me you did not bring Mr. Holmes in while I was stark staring mad." "What do you take me for? He came himself. Needed a clip of your hair." "What in God's Teeth did he want with a clip of my hair?" Lestrade shouted. All things considered, he was proud of himself for not screaming. Without intending it, he reached up to seek out that offending spot in the...
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"Mr. Holmes is an amateur, Hopkins." Lestrade was smiling around the stem of his pipe as he spoke. Hopkins could hear it. "Not a man who works well in teams, he. He still trusts Dr. Watson not to lie to him... and Dr. Watson's pulled some whoppers to save his skinny neck in the past." Lestrade was still smiling. "Not that that's not the most interesting thing about those fellows. I could tell you some stories about them, Stanley... oh, I could tell...
3) The Adventure of the Flying Blue Pidgeon: Sherlock Holmes' London Through the Eyes of Scotland Yard
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Lestrade panted, getting to his feet as the gang of Cheathams fell back. "Right now I can think of worse things than rescue by an amateur detective." "My dear Lestrade, we're simply ensuring the fight is fair." Sherlock Holmes somehow dissuaded the truth of that by the way his lips were coiling up at the edges (without letting go of the pipe in his teeth). Perhaps it was because he was clearly in disguise as a seedy deckhand in Dutchman's sailing...
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Why would a wealthy noble murder a man too poor to own stockings? Inspectors Gregson and Lestrade could explain, but Gregson is suddenly in the custody of the Foreign Office, and Lestrade has vanished. The only clues Sherlock Holmes can use are in the dead man's rags...or a strange archaeological relic involving all three men: A half-melted Celtic wolf found in the bottom of a Roman Well.
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Jonas Shenk has died. His brother has kept his corpse in the basement of Grim House, but the police have finally found it out. For the sake of public health the body must be declared dead and removed. Dr. Watson's thoughts were on holiday carolling and celebrations of the year drawing to its end, but the Yard's job-offer is a welcome bit of income. Before long it becomes clear that there is something very, very wrong with Grim House, and it will take...
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Superstition and Science have always been at odds, but this time Sherlock Holmes is challenged to disprove a case that was solved years ago by 'supernatural means'. If he wins, the Yard wins a blow against a damaging element of thought within their ranks. If he loses, everyone suffers, for a powerful administrator believes a little too much in matters beyond the veil...
He is presented the facts as they were written before the audience, but he may...
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Stapleton may be dead, but the West Country still feels the effects of his crimes. Sir Henry Baskerville has asked Sherlock Holmes and Mr. Lestrade to resolve a peculiar little problem: one of Stapleton's victims has died and her heirs have a very different idea of how to plead damages. The question begs: what is Abraham Quantock's real motive for demanding the deed to Merripit House? And why are the gossipy villagers suddenly silent? The only ones...
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