item: #1 of 6 id: 16097 author: Bangs, John Kendrick title: The Pursuit of the House-Boat Being Some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq. date: None words: 34046 flesch: 79 summary: I will take Africa; Bonaparte can lead an expedition into Europe; General Washington may have North America; and-- I beg pardon, put in Dr. Johnson, but have you any idea, Dr. Livingstone, that Captain Kidd has put wheels on this House-boat of ours and is having it dragged across the Sahara by mules or camels? No such absurd idea ever entered my head, retorted the Doctor. Captain Kidd is a seafarer by instinct, not a landsman. keywords: abeuchapeta; board; boat; business; captain; charon; cleopatra; day; deck; elizabeth; gentlemen; good; holmes; house; illustration; island; johnson; kidd; ladies; man; mind; mrs; noah; portia; raleigh; right; sir; stranger; time; walter; watch; way; xanthippe cache: 16097.txt plain text: 16097.txt item: #2 of 6 id: 20559 author: Bangs, John Kendrick title: R. Holmes & Co. Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq., Detective and Amateur Cracksman by Birth date: None words: 34168 flesch: 82 summary: 'Now that I think of it, Mr. Raffles Holmes--that _was_ it. We'll see what the police have to say about this, Mr. Raffles Holmes, Grouch shrieked, as he made for the door. keywords: blank; burlingame; business; case; day; days; dorrington; father; general; good; great; grouch; hand; holmes; house; jenkins; job; man; matter; moment; mrs; night; raffles holmes; rand; room; safe; sir; tattersby; thing; time; way; week cache: 20559.txt plain text: 20559.txt item: #3 of 6 id: 31135 author: Thierry, James Francis title: The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons Being one of the exciting episodes in the career of the famous detective Hemlock Holmes, as recorded by his friend Dr. Watson date: None words: 41048 flesch: 79 summary: He doesn't do a single thing but stand around und talk sassy to us fellers at the castle, und since das Earl is half-stewed all the time, drinking das expensive vine mit Harrigan das butler, old Holmes, he finds it darned easy to pull das vool over das Earl's eyes, und make him believe he is earning das big fee he vill charge him! Got any idea who lifted the second and third pair,--any clues at all to the guilty wretches? No, Mr. Holmes; I really haven't, replied Lord Launcelot, as he sat down. keywords: away; budd; buttons; castle; chair; countess; cuff; diamond; diamond cuff; door; earl; face; floor; good; hand; harrigan; hemlock holmes; holmes; launcelot; letstrayed; london; lordship; man; morning; pocket; right; room; second; shoes; thing; thorneycroft; time; tooter; watson cache: 31135.txt plain text: 31135.txt item: #4 of 6 id: 39718 author: Doyle, Arthur Conan title: The Wanderings of a Spiritualist date: None words: 84393 flesch: 71 summary: The lecture was a private one and was attended by Mr. Charles Richet, Mr. Gabrielle Delanne, and a number of other men of science. It should be a fine eleven which contains a genius like Hobbs, backed by such men as the bustling bulldog, Hendren, a great out-field as well as a grand bat, or the wily, dangerous Hearne, or Douglas, cricketer, boxer, above all warrior, a worthy leader of Englishmen. keywords: audience; australia; book; british; case; children; church; conditions; country; course; day; days; deep; doubt; doyle; end; england; evidence; experience; face; fact; general; god; good; great; hand; head; high; home; house; knowledge; lady; life; london; man; matter; medium; melbourne; men; miles; mind; mrs; nature; new; night; occasion; old; people; place; present; press; public; question; real; result; room; round; save; sea; ship; sir; spirit; spiritualists; state; subject; sydney; things; thought; time; town; truth; view; war; water; way; wife; work; world; years; zealand cache: 39718.txt plain text: 39718.txt item: #5 of 6 id: 40203 author: Leblanc, Maurice title: Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes date: None words: 61830 flesch: 85 summary: This advice seemed to commend itself to the detective, for he partially rose and said, very formally: Monsieur Wilson, my friend and assistant--Monsieur Arsène Lupin. Monsieur Lupin, there are two men in the world at whom I am never astonished: in the first place, myself--and then, Arsène Lupin. keywords: arsène; arsène lupin; baron; day; destange; diamond; door; englishman; floor; friend; ganimard; gerbois; good; hand; herlock; herlock sholmes; house; lady; left; letter; lupin; madame; mademoiselle; man; men; minutes; moment; monsieur; monsieur sholmes; morning; place; room; rue; sholmes; time; way; wilson cache: 40203.txt plain text: 40203.txt item: #6 of 6 id: 51743 author: McCabe, Joseph title: Is Spiritualism Based on Fraud? The Evidence Given by Sir A.C. Doyle and Others Drastically Examined date: None words: 48086 flesch: 71 summary: Ofelia Corralès, the medium in question, was the daughter of a high civic functionary of San José; an _unpaid_ medium, you notice. Other mediums have leather cuffs inside their sleeves, with a dark piece of iron or a hook projecting to catch the edge of the table. keywords: case; crookes; dark; day; dead; doyle; evidence; fraud; ghost; hands; home; lady; light; london; man; medium; men; messages; movement; mrs; new; people; phenomena; photograph; professor; reader; room; sir; sir a.; sitters; spirits; spiritualist; table; things; time; way; world; years cache: 51743.txt plain text: 51743.txt