The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

de the advertisement sheet of the Daily Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least

m bound to say, occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much to the many causes celebres and sensational trials in which I have figured but rather to those

hold myself absolved from the charge of sensati

s clay when he was in a disputatious rather than a meditative mood --"you have erred perhaps in attempting to put color and life into each of your statements inst

arked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism which I had more

e for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing -- a thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the lo

ows loomed like dark, shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been silent all t