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With a smiling face and a heart of marble he will squeeze and squeeze until he has drained them dry.”","description":"Sherlock Holmes must help the Lady Evan Brackwell, who has fallen prey to the infamous king of blackmail, Charles Augustus Milverton.","series":"Sherlock Holmes","cover_position":"center 3%","unique_cover":"Drawing of a man in a robe and top hat stands in the shadows with his hands clasped.","cover_source":true},{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5df0","title":"The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place","publish_year":1927,"publish_edition":"Vol. 4","publish_source":"Liberty","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","code":"the-adventure-of-shoscombe-old-place","words":6230,"rating":3,"image":"detective.jpg","image_alt":"A man in a bowler hat and a popped collar. 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Lady Brackenstall thinks that they were themselves so disturbed by the death of Sir Eustace that they did not ransack the house as they would otherwise have done.”","series":"Sherlock Holmes","unique_cover":"Three men look over a body by a fireplace.","cover_source":true},{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5d29","title":"The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet","publish_year":1892,"publish_source":"The Strand Magazine","publish_edition":"Vol. 3, No. 17","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/StrandMagazine17/page/n69/mode/2up","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","code":"the-adventure-of-the-beryl-coronet","words":9674,"image":"detective.jpg","rating":3,"image_alt":"A man in a bowler hat and a popped collar. Graphite filter","genres":["mystery","adventure"],"blurb":"At my cry he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with three of the beryls in it, was missing.","description":"Alexander Holder, the senior partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City of London, was entrusted with the priceless ‘Beryl Coronet’. Now he finds himself asking Holmes for help, after losing three of its beryl jewels to thievery from his own household.","series":"Sherlock Holmes","unique_cover":"Drawing of two men in suits (Holmes and Watson) console a man sitting down with his hand in his hair.","cover_position":"right","cover_source":true},{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5d2a","title":"The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle","publish_year":1892,"publish_source":"The Strand Magazine","publish_edition":"Vol. 3","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/strand-1892-v-3/page/73/mode/2up","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","code":"the-adventure-of-the-blue-carbuncle","words":7805,"image":"detective.jpg","image_alt":"A man in a bowler hat and a popped collar. 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It is my business to know what other people don’t know.”","description":"The silly mystery of an abandoned felt hat and Christmas goose turns into an extravagant scandal when the precious ‘Blue Carbuncle’ is found in the stomach of the goose.","rating":2,"series":"Sherlock Holmes","unique_cover":"Drawing of two men in suits sitting on chairs as a third man speaks to them with his hand outstretched and palm up.","cover_source":true},{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5e11","title":"The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans","publish_year":1908,"publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/TheStrandMagazineAnIllustratedMonthly/TheStrandMagazine1908bVol.XxxviJan-jun/page/n695/mode/2up","publish_source":"The Strand Magazine","publish_edition":"Vol. 36","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","code":"the-adventure-of-the-bruce-partington-plans","words":10677,"image":"detective.jpg","image_alt":"A man in a bowler hat and a popped collar. 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Why did Cadogan West take the papers, where are the missing ones, how did he die, how came his body where it was found, how can the evil be set right?","description":"A clerk is found dead with the plans for the British Navy’s revolutionary new submarine in his pocket.","rating":3,"series":"Sherlock Holmes","unique_cover":"Drawing of four men in a room, one standing up holds a large stack of paper.","cover_source":true},{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5e0f","title":"The Adventure of the Cardboard Box","publish_year":1893,"publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/StrandMagazine_025/page/n59/mode/2up","publish_source":"The Strand Magazine","publish_edition":"Vol. 5, No. 25","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","code":"the-adventure-of-the-cardboard-box","words":8631,"image":"detective.jpg","image_alt":"A man in a bowler hat and a popped collar. Graphite filter","genres":["mystery","adventure"],"blurb":"“The presumption is strongly against it. Bodies in the dissecting-rooms are injected with preservative fluid. These ears bear no signs of this. They are fresh, too. They have been cut off with a blunt instrument, which would hardly happen if a student had done it.”","description":"Miss Susan Cushing receives a cardboard box with two severed human ears. Scotland Yard suspects a revenge prank from evicted tenants with access to human remains, but Holmes suspects a more sinister plot.","series":"Sherlock Holmes","unique_cover":"Drawing of Holmes, Watson and anotehr man peering at a board as the third man arranges two small objects.","cover_source":true},{"_id":"686e8b3afb40fdb155cffd02","title":"The Adventure of the Cheap Flat","author":"Agatha Christie","code":"the-adventure-of-the-cheap-flat","publish_year":1923,"publish_source":"The Sketch","publish_edition":"Iss. 1580","words":4701,"image":"spectacles.jpg","image_alt":"Spectacles. 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It racks itself to pieces.","description":"One is dead and two have been rendered insane, and yet not even Holmes can find any evidence of poison or an intruder.","series":"Sherlock Holmes","unique_cover":"Two men standing talk to two men sitting. Drawing.","rating":4,"cover_source":true},{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5e0a","title":"The Adventure of the Dying Detective","publish_year":1913,"publish_source":"The Strand Magazine","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/TheStrandMagazineAnIllustratedMonthly/TheStrandMagazine1913bVol.XlviJul-dec/page/n621/mode/2up","publish_edition":"Vol. 46","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","code":"the-adventure-of-the-dying-detective","words":5769,"image":"detective.jpg","image_alt":"A man in a bowler hat and a popped collar. Graphite filter","genres":["mystery","adventure"],"blurb":"“For three days he has been sinking, and I doubt if he will last the day. He would not let me get a doctor. This morning when I saw his bones sticking out of his face and his great bright eyes looking at me I could stand no more of it.”","description":"Upon learning of a bedridden Holmes, Watson finds him gaunt and flushed, claiming to have a disease both fatal and infectious.","rating":4,"series":"Sherlock Holmes","unique_cover":"Drawing of Holmes, lying in bed, is reaching out towards Watson who his handling a small box.","cover_position":"top","cover_source":true},{"_id":"6870733a607754d88c5b6a19","title":"The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb","author":"Agatha Christie","code":"the-adventure-of-the-egyptian-tomb","publish_year":1923,"publish_source":"The Sketch","publish_edition":"Iss. 1600","words":5036,"image":"spectacles.jpg","image_alt":"Spectacles. Graphite filter.","genres":["mystery"],"description":"Three deaths surround an expedition to uncover the tomb of King Men-her-Ra and superstition abounds. 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They were slurred and indistinct, but to my ear the last of them, which burst in a shriek from his lips, were “the Lion’s Mane.”","series":"Sherlock Holmes","unique_cover":"Two men find a naked man near a cliff on the ground with a coat layed over him. ","cover_source":true},{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5de8","title":"The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone","publish_year":1921,"publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/TheStrandMagazineAnIllustratedMonthly/TheStrandMagazine1921bVol.LxiiJul-dec/page/n309/mode/2up","publish_source":"The Strand Magazine","publish_edition":"Vol. 62, No. 370","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","code":"the-adventure-of-the-mazarin-stone","words":5639,"image":"detective.jpg","image_alt":"A man in a bowler hat and a popped collar. Graphite filter","genres":["mystery","adventure"],"description":"Holmes tells Watson of his plan to foil his would-be assassin using a wax model.","blurb":"“No violence, gentlemen—no violence, I beg of you! 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I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in the same position.”","description":"Lord St. Simon comes to Holmes to ask him to find his missing bride.","series":"Sherlock Holmes","unique_cover":"Drawing of a man reclining on a chair with his feet on another chair and his hands resting together by the fingertips as a slim man reads from a piece of paper.","cover_source":true},{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5df3","title":"The Adventure of the Norwood Builder","publish_year":1903,"publish_source":"Collier’s","publish_edition":"Vol. 32, Iss. 5","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/sim_colliers-the-national-weekly_1903-10-31_32_5/page/16/mode/2up","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","code":"the-adventure-of-the-norwood-builder","words":9214,"image":"detective.jpg","image_alt":"A man in a bowler hat and a popped collar. 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The principal of his school begs for help from Sherlock Holmes.","blurb":"“Well, now, you do not mean to seriously suggest that this German rode off upon a bicycle in the dead of the night bearing the boy in his arms?”","series":"Sherlock Holmes","unique_cover":"Drawing of two men coming across a body by a bush, a bicycle lies behind the two men.","cover_source":true},{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5e10","title":"The Adventure of the Red Circle","publish_year":1911,"publish_source":"The Strand Magazine","publish_edition":"Vol. 41","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/TheStrandMagazineAnIllustratedMonthly/TheStrandMagazine1911aVol.XliJan-jun/page/n267/mode/2up","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","code":"the-adventure-of-the-red-circle","words":7285,"image":"detective.jpg","image_alt":"A man in a bowler hat and a popped collar. Graphite filter","genres":["mystery","adventure"],"description":"A man offers a woman double her lodging rate if she promises to never disturb him. 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