The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is the creator of the Sherlock Holmes character, writing his debut appearance in A Study in Scarlet. Doyle wrote notable books in the fantasy and science fiction genres, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels.
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The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place
SAGA Egmont
The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place
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SHERLOCK HOLMES had been bending for a long time over a low-power microscope. Now he straightened himself up and looked round at me in triumph.
It is glue, Watson,
said he. Unquestionably it is glue. Have a look at these scattered objects in the field!
I stooped to the eyepiece and focussed for my vision.
Those hairs are threads from a tweed coat. The irregular grey masses are dust. There are epithelial scales on the left. Those brown blobs in the centre are undoubtedly glue.
Well,
I said, laughing, I am prepared to take your word for it. Does anything depend upon it?
It is a very fine demonstration,
he answered. In the St. Pancras case you may remember that a cap was found beside the dead policeman. The accused man denies that it is his. But he is a picture-frame maker who habitually handles glue.
Is it one of your cases?
"No; my friend, Merivale, of the Yard, asked me to look into the case. Since I ran down that coiner by the zinc and copper filings in the seam of his cuff they