He Was A Remarkably Handsome Man - Dark - ______ - And Moustached - evidently The Man Of Whom I Had Heard; In The Dim Light Of The Lamp I Sawhim Sitting There - An Old Briar Pipe Between Hislips - His Eyes Fixed Vacantly Upon The Corner Of Theceiling - The Blue Smoke Curling Up From Him - Silent - Motionless - With The Light Shining Upon His Strongset ______ Features

A collection of twelve short stories, published in 1892, by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. I The stories are not in chronological order, and the only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson. The stories are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view. In general the stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes identify, and try to correct, social injustices. Holmes is portrayed as offering a new, fairer sense of justice.