I Had Come To The Conclusion That He Haddropped Asleep - And Indeed Was Nodding Myself - When He Suddenly Sprang Out Of His Chair With Thegesture Of A Man Who Has Made Up His Mind Andput His Pipe Down Upon The ______; Holmes Stuck His Feet Up On The Corner Ofthe ______ And - Leaning Back With His Hands39 a Case Of Identitythe Allusions To A Possibility Of Something Happening On The Very Morning Of The Wedding;"Our Visitor Staggered To His Feet And Clutchedthe ______ With His Right Hand; He Was A Lateriser - As A Rule - And As The Clock On The ______showed Me That It Was Only A Quarter-past Seven - Iblinked Up At Him In Some Surprise - And Perhapsjust A Little Resentment - For I Was Myself Regular Inmy Habits;"Sherlock Holmes Was - As I Expected - Loungingabout His Sitting-room In His Dressing-gown - Reading The Agony Column Of The Times And Smokinghis Before-breakfast Pipe - Which Was Composed Ofall The Plugs And Dottles Left From His Smokes Of Theday Before - All Carefully Dried And Collected On Thecorner Of The ______;" Hepicked A Red-covered Volume From A Line Of Booksof Reference Beside The ______

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.