英语故事- Lord Arthur Saviles Crime

A Study of DutyIIt was Lady Windermeres last reception before Easter, and Bentinck House was even more crowded than usual. Six Cabinet Ministers had come on from the Speakers Levee in their stars and ...Full Article

英语故事- The Bolted Door

IHubert Granice, pacing the length of his pleasant lamp-lit library, paused to compare his watch with the clock on the chimney-piece.      Three minutes to eight.    ...Full Article

英语故事- Letter from the Understudy

Dear Malcolm,           The first thing to say is, Im sorry. I know it wont be easy for you to believe after recent events, but I deeply regret the mess Ive mad...Full Article

英语故事- The Tell-Tale Heart

True! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses - not destroyed - not dulled them. Above all was the sense of...Full Article

英语故事- The Purloined Letter

Nil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio.          - SENECAAt Paris, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18-, I was enjoying the twofold luxury...Full Article

英语故事- The Murders in the Rue Morgue

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he bid himself among women, although puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.Sir Thomas Browne,Urn-Burial    &nbs...Full Article

英语故事- The Cask of Amontillado

The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave ut...Full Article

英语故事- Impersonating Elvis

This isnt a story about Elvis Presley. This is a story about Chuckie Walaach and me and Chucks wife, Carol. Carol should have been my wife but sometimes things dont work out the way they should and so...Full Article

英语故事- The Man With The Cough

I am a German by birth and descent. My name is Schmidt. But by education I am quite as much an Englishman as a Deutscher, and by affection much more the former. My life has been spent pretty equally b...Full Article

英语故事- Fall North

Ed was told to go to Boston to bring back Rollos daughter. Ed had been to Boston before, knew his way around, and could be trusted to do what he was told. He was the best choice of all the boys. Pyres...Full Article

英语故事- Gentlemen and Players

Old Raffles may or may not have been an exceptional criminal, but as a cricketer I dare swear he was unique. Himself a dangerous bat, a brilliant field, and perhaps the very finest slow bowler of his ...Full Article

英语故事- The Yellow Face

[In publishing these short sketches based upon the numerous cases in which my companions singular gifts have made us the listeners to, and eventually the actors in, some strange drama, it is only natu...Full Article

英语故事- The Stock Brokers Clerk

Shortly after my marriage I had bought a connection in the Paddington district. Old Mr. Farquhar, from whom I purchased it, had at one time an excellent general practice; but his age, and an afflictio...Full Article

英语故事- The Resident Patient

Glancing over the somewhat incoherent series of Memoirs with which I have endeavored to illustrate a few of the mental peculiarities of my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I have been struck by the difficu...Full Article

英语故事- The Reigate Puzzle

It was some time before the health of my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes recovered from the strain caused by his immense exertions in the spring of 87. The whole question of the Netherland-Sumatra Company ...Full Article

英语故事- The Red-Headed League

I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year, and found him in deep conversation with a very stout, florid-faced elderly gentleman, with fiery red hair. With an...Full Article

英语故事- The New Catacomb

Look here, Burger, said Kennedy, I do wish that you would confide in me.      The two famous students of Roman remains sat together in Kennedys comfortable room overlooking the Cor...Full Article

英语故事- The Naval Treaty

The July which immediately succeeded my marriage was made memorable by three cases of interest, in which I had the privilege of being associated with Sherlock Holmes and of studying his methods. I fin...Full Article

英语故事- The Musgrave Ritual

An anomaly which often struck me in the character of my friend Sherlock Holmes was that, although in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most methodical of mankind, and although also he affe...Full Article

英语故事- The Man with the Watches

There are many who will still bear in mind the singular circumstances which, under the heading of the Rugby Mystery, filled many columns of the daily Press in the spring of the year 1892. Coming as it...Full Article