The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier
36 pages
|Published: 20 Jan 2016
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ISBN: 9781523489848
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication date: 20 January 2016
Description
The ideas of my friend Watson, though limited, are exceedingly pertinacious. For a long time he has worried me to write an experience of my own. Perhaps I have rather invited this persecution, since I have often had occasion to point out to him how superficial are his own accounts and to accuse him of pandering to popular taste instead of confining himself rigidly to facts and figures. "Try it yourself, Holmes! " he has retorted, and I am compelled to admit that, having taken my pen in my hand, I do begin to realize that the matter must be presented in such a way as may interest the reader.
