 No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from which he had half risen. " I really wouldn't miss your case for the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about...  Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Page 38by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - 1892 - 307 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir George Newnes, Herbert Greenhough Smith - British fiction - 1891 - 724 pages
...my saying co, something just a little funny about it. Pray what steps did you take when you foun j the card upon the door ? " " I was staggered, sir....went to the landlord, who is an accountant living on ths ground floor, and I asked him if he could tell me what had become of the Red-headed League. He... | |
 | 1892 - 550 pages
...head. " If you can do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere. " " No, no, "cried Holme, shoving him back into the chair from which he had...to the landlord, who is an accountant living on the ground floor, and I asked him if he could tell me what had become of the Red-Headed League. He said... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1897 - 452 pages
...sheet of note-paper. It read in this fashion: — THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE 1s DISSOLVED. October gtll, 1890. Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement...asked him if he could tell me what had become of the Red- Headed League. He said that he had never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan... | |
 | Arthur Conan Doyle - 1903 - 472 pages
...and the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so completely overtopped every consideration that we both burst out into a roar of...to the landlord, who is an accountant living on the ground floor, and I asked him if he could tell me what had become of the Redheaded League. He said... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - Detective and mystery stories - 1907 - 314 pages
...and the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so completely overtopped every consideration that we both burst out into a roar of...to the landlord, who is an accountant living on the ground floor, and I asked him if he could tell me what had become of the Red-headed League. He said... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - Detective and mystery stories - 1907 - 314 pages
...and the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so completely overtopped every consideration that we both burst out into a roar of...to the landlord, who is an accountant living on the ground floor, and I asked him if he could tell me what had become of the Red-headed League. He said... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - Detective and mystery stories - 1909 - 384 pages
...and the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so completely overtopped every consideration that we both burst out into a roar of...to the landlord, who is an accountant living on the ground floor, and I asked him if he could tell me what had become of the Red-headed League. He said... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1909 - 380 pages
...if you will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. Pray what steps did yoi¿ take when you found the card upon the door?” “I...to the landlord, who is an accountant living on the ground floor, and I asked him if he could tell me what had become of the Red-headed League. He said... | |
 | Frederick Houk Law - Short stories - 1918 - 342 pages
...sheet of note-paper. It read in this fashion: "THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE is DISSOLVED. October 9, 1890." affair so completely overtopped every other consideration...asked him if he could tell me what had become of the Bed-headed League. He said that he had never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan... | |
 | Arthur Conan Doyle - English fiction - 1919 - 220 pages
...affair so completely overtopped every consideration that we both burst out into a roar of laughter. " If you can do nothing better than laugh at me, I can...to the landlord, who is an accountant living on the ground floor, and I asked him if he could tell me what had become of the Red-headed League. He said... | |
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