The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases

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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson … He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them’,Sherlock Holmes, scourge of criminals everywhere, whether they be lurking in London’s foggy backstreets or plotting behind the walls of an idyllic country mansion, and his faithful co….Read More

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