Indeed - Apart From The Nature Of Theinvestigation Which My Friend Had On Hand - Therewas Something In His Masterly ______ Of A Situation - And His Keen - Incisive Reasoning - Which Made It Apleasure To Me To Study His System Of Work - Andto Follow The Quick - Subtle Methods By Which Hedisentangled The Most Inextricable Mysteries;"You Have Really Got It!" He Cried - ______ing Sherlock Holmes By Either Shoulder And Looking Eagerlyinto His Face; By Jove!" He Continued - Flushing Up At Thesight Of The Bitter Sneer Upon The Man's Face - "Itis Not Part Of My Duties To My Client - But Here's Ahunting Crop Handy - And I Think I Shall Just Treatmyself To - " He Took Two Swift Steps To The Whip - But Before He Could ______ It There Was A Wild Clatter Of Steps Upon The Stairs - The Heavy Hall Doorbanged - And From The Window We Could See Mr;""Anyhow - I Have ______ed One Fact Which Youseem To Find It Difficult To Get Hold Of - " Repliedlestrade With Some Warmth; I Seem To Be In The ______ Ofsome Resistless - Inexorable Evil - Which No Foresightand No Precautions Can Guard Against;' He Looked At Mewith A Last Long - Questioning Gaze - And Then - Pressing My Hand In A Cold - Dank ______ - He Hurried Fromthe Room; Withouta Word He ______ed My Arm And Hurried Me Into Acarriage - The Door Of Which Was Standing Open;" He Put Out His Hand And Coldly ______ed Thatwhich She Extended To Him; At My Cry Hedropped It From His ______ And Turned As Pale Asdeath; How Cruelly I Havemisjudged Him!""When I Arrived At The House - " Continuedholmes - "I At Once Went Very Carefully Round It To142 the Adventure Of The Beryl Coronetthe Prize - But Had Left A Fragment In The ______ Ofhis Opponent; It Is Pleasant To Me Toobserve - Watson - That You Have So Far ______ed Thistruth That In These Little Records Of Our Cases Whichyou Have Been Good Enough To Draw Up - And - I Ambound To Say - Occasionally To Embellish - You Havegiven Prominence Not So Much To The Many Causesc´el`ebres And Sensational Trials In Which I Have Figured But Rather To Those Incidents Which May Havebeen Trivial In Themselves - But Which Have Givenroom For Those Faculties Of Deduction And Of Logicalsynthesis Which I Have Made My Special Province

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.