Sherlock Holmes Quote of the Day

[squeeze left]

Hello all,

I've been working my way through "The Complete Sherlock Holmes" and one of the great things about it is all the gratuitous tobacco references. I've been meaning to share some of these with you all, and I thought I'd start with this one from The Man With the Twisted Lip:

"[Holmes] was now preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, silent, motionless. . . ."

"[When I awoke] I found the summer sun shining into the apartment. the pipe was still between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of shag which I had seen upon the previous night."

. . . (case solved!) . . .

"[Said the policeman] 'I wish I knew how you reach your results.'"

"I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if we drive to Baker Street we shall be just in time for breakfast."

-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

[JacksonCognac]

awesome quotes - I need to read this book badly.

[SUOrangeGuy]

Sherlock sure enjoyed some nasty tobacco. Drying out the dottle to smoke later


I bought the complete works cheap on eBay and read them all last summer. Great timeless stories.

There is one where he actually uses tobacco ash to solve the mystery. No hints though.

Here is a version of the set I bought. Cheap for every story.

http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Complete-She...QQcmdZViewItem

[IHT]

i just won them a few months back on ebay as well, the complete stories... i think i'm on the 4th story now... been too busy to read.

[Mad Hatter]

I just got a leatherbound Franklin Mint copy of Great Cases of Sherlock Holmes on Ebay a couple weeks ago. I think the end price was like $33. I haven't read any of it yet.

[Tredegar]

I have the original illustrated Sherlock Holmes and consider it one of my favorite books. Still miss the Sherlock Holmes adventures they had on A&E.

[JacksonCognac]

As an update last night I purchased a copy of Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume I. I got it for $4 and I'm hoping to get a lot of great summer reading out of it.

[squeeze left]

Glad to hear you all are enjoying (or will be enjoying) Dr. Watson's account of Holmes's bizarre and compelling adventures!

My copy is a leatherbound edition I picked up for $15 at the local Barnes and Noble. I especially like it because it has the ribbon you use as a bookmark.

[Sawyer]

If you can't find them as cheaply as some have stated, you can download them for free from Project Gutenberg since they are no longer copyrighted works. I have been reading and listening from that site. They are nice for light reading sessions or even relaxing and just listening.

[CigarGal]

Holmes is the best! I have always been a big fan and when I wrote my novel Conan Doyle was one of the characters-I had so much fun researching and writing the story.

I hope we see more quotes on this thread.

[Mr.Lordi]

I am not sure if there is an Arthur Conan Doyle book, but Library of America puts out beautiful copies of books of works that should be preserved.

I have the H.P. Lovecraft book in that series and it's a awesome little book. Great binding and paper that they use. Well worth the 20 bucks they cost.

[CigarGal]

Originally Posted by Mr.Lordi

I am not sure if there is an Arthur Conan Doyle book, but Library of America puts out beautiful copies of books of works that should be preserved.

I have the H.P. Lovecraft book in that series and it's a awesome little book. Great binding and paper that they use. Well worth the 20 bucks they cost.

Lovecraft was American and possibly the Library of America only puts in print American authors.

[tzilt]

Originally Posted by Mr.Lordi

I am not sure if there is an Arthur Conan Doyle book, but Library of America puts out beautiful copies of books of works that should be preserved.

I have the H.P. Lovecraft book in that series and it's a awesome little book. Great binding and paper that they use. Well worth the 20 bucks they cost.

Ooh! I wish I would have seen that before placing my amazon order.

[Mr.Lordi]

Originally Posted by CigarGal

Lovecraft was American and possibly the Library of America only puts in print American authors.

I know, but I thought they put one out of Dickens, but I could be wrong on that.


EDIT: I am googling it now.


EDIT:I was wrong. Bah! either way, if you want to read classic American lit as well, you can't do much better then the LOA series IMO.

[CigarGal]

gotta love google...what did you find?