Tài liệu tham khảo và đọc truyện trinh thám về thám tử Sherlock Holmes | THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. By Arthur Conan Doyle Prepared and Published by Ebd I. The Adventure of the Empty House IT was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested and the fashionable world dismayed by the murder of the Honourable Ronald Adair under most unusual and inexplicable circumstances. The public has already learned those particulars of the crime which came out in the police investigation but a good deal was suppressed upon that occasion since the case for the prosecution was so overwhelmingly strong that it was not necessary to bring forward all the facts. Only now at the end of nearly ten years am I allowed to supply those missing links which make up the whole of that remarkable chain. The crime was of interest in itself but that interest was as nothing to me compared to the inconceivable sequel which afforded me the greatest shock and surprise of any event in my adventurous life. Even now after this long interval I find myself thrilling as I think of it and feeling once more that sudden flood of joy amazement and incredulity which utterly submerged my mind. Let me say to that public which has shown some interest in those glimpses which I have occasionally given them of the thoughts and actions of a very remarkable man that they are not to blame me if I have not shared my knowledge with them for I should have considered it my first duty to have done so had I not been barred by a positive prohibition from his own lips which was only withdrawn upon the third of last month. It can be imagined that my close intimacy with Sherlock Holmes had interested me deeply in crime and that after his disappearance I never failed to read with care the various problems which came before the public and I even attempted more than once for my own private satisfaction to employ his methods in their solution though with indifferent success. There was none however which appealed to me like this tragedy of Ronald Adair. As I read the .
