It Had Cleared In The Morning - And The Sun Wasshining With A ______ Brightness Through Thedim Veil Which Hangs Over The Great City; About Sunset - However - Their Efforts Were Atlast Successful - And They ______ The Flames - Butnot Before The Roof Had Fallen In - And The Wholeplace Been Reduced To Such Absolute Ruin That - Savesome Twisted Cylinders And Iron Piping - Not A Traceremained Of The Machinery Which Had Cost Our Unfortunate Acquaintance So Dearly

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.