Sherlock Holmes Stopped In Front Of It With His Headon One Side And Looked It All Over - With His Eyesshining Brightly Between Puckered ______s;"He Held Out His Snuffbox Of Old Gold - With Agreat Amethyst In The Centre Of The ______; As I Glanced At The Box I Noticed - With A Start - That Upon The ______ Was Printed The Treble K Which Ihad Read In The Morning Upon The Envelope; I Cansee Him Now - With Yellow - Pasty Face - Drooping ______s - And Pin-point Pupils - All Huddled In A Chair - Thewreck And Ruin Of A Noble Man; Clair Had Been Deluded When - With A Cry - She Sprang At A Small Deal Box Which Layupon The Table And Tore The ______ From It;"Sherlock Holmes Had Been Leaning Back In Hischair With His Eyes Closed And His Head Sunk Ina Cushion - But He Half Opened His ______s Now Andglanced Across At His Visitor;He Looked Her Over In His Searching Fashion - Andthen Composed Himself - With His ______s Drooping Andhis Finger-tips Together - To Listen To Her Story

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.