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To be very clear, #OTD 1927 'Shoscombe Old Place', the final story in the Canon made its first appearance. It appeared in The Strand in April.
I gripped him by the arm.
'Holmes!' I cried. 'Is it really you? Can it indeed be that you are alive? Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of that awful abyss?' 'The Empty House' 1st appeared in collier's #OTD 1903. https://t.co/hG81yuYQ8K
John Doubleday's state of Sherlock Holmes dedicated on Baker Street #OTD 1999.
'Sharkey sprang for the brass-handled sword which hung from the wall.
"Sink them for rascals!" he cried. "When I have gutted one or two of them they may hear reason."' ('How Copley Banks Slew Captain Sharkey') #TalkLikeAPirateDay
'It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubbable men in town. No member is permitted to take the least notice of any other one' 'The Greek Interpreter' Harper's Weekly #OTD 1893 https://t.co/KGx1dffSV4
'I don't think that any of my adventures with Mr Sherlock Holmes opened quite so abruptly, or so dramatically, as that which I associate with The Three Gables.' Jay Finley Christ dates as #OTD 1902.
'"It can't hurt now," was Mr Sherlock Holmes's comment when, for the tenth time in as many years, I asked his leave to reveal the following narrative.' H. W. Bell and Ernest Zeisler both agree that 'The Illustrious Client' began #OTD 1902
Sherlock Holmes was in a melancholy and philosophic mood that morning. His alert practical nature was subject to such reactions.
'Did you see him?' he asked.
'You mean the old fellow who has just gone out?'
'Precisely.' Baring-Gould says 'The Retired Colourman' began #OTD 1898.
'From the point of view of the criminal expert,' said Mr Sherlock Holmes, 'London has become a singularly uninteresting city since the death of the late lamented Professor Moriarty.' Zeisler dates 'The Norwood Builder #OTD 1904. https://t.co/xprZmDzBoZ
'Thus I have it here that it was on that very day, July 2nd, that Roy attacked the Professor as he came from his study into the hall.' ('The Creeping Man')