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1  The second most dangerous man in London.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
2  He retired, came to London, and again acquired an evil name.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
3  He was the best shot in India, and I expect that there are few better in London.
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ContextHighlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
4  So long as he was free in London, my life would really not have been worth living.
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ContextHighlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
5  I called this morning, Dr. Huxtable, too late to prevent you from starting for London.
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ContextHighlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
6  Yes, I am all that, Mr. Holmes; and, in addition, I am the most unfortunate man at this moment in London.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
7  I have been followed from London Bridge Station, and I am sure that they are only waiting for the warrant to arrest me.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
8  To the scientific student of the higher criminal world, no capital in Europe offered the advantages which London then possessed.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
9  I therefore cabled to my friend, Wilson Hargreave, of the New York Police Bureau, who has more than once made use of my knowledge of London crime.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
10  Last year I came up to London for the Jubilee, and I stopped at a boarding-house in Russell Square, because Parker, the vicar of our parish, was staying in it.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
11  Well, Elsie learned some of our ways, but she couldn't stand the business, and she had a bit of honest money of her own, so she gave us all the slip and got away to London.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
12  The course of events in London did not run so well as I had hoped, for the trial of the Moriarty gang left two of its most dangerous members, my own most vindictive enemies, at liberty.
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ContextHighlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
13  I came over at once to London, called in my own person at Baker Street, threw Mrs. Hudson into violent hysterics, and found that Mycroft had preserved my rooms and my papers exactly as they had always been.
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ContextHighlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
14  But I cared a great deal for the much more formidable person who was behind him, the bosom friend of Moriarty, the man who dropped the rocks over the cliff, the most cunning and dangerous criminal in London.
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ContextHighlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
15  Holmes's knowledge of the byways of London was extraordinary, and on this occasion he passed rapidly and with an assured step through a network of mews and stables, the very existence of which I had never known.
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ContextHighlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
16  A rainy night had been followed by a glorious morning, and the heath-covered countryside, with the glowing clumps of flowering gorse, seemed all the more beautiful to eyes which were weary of the duns and drabs and slate grays of London.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
17  Having concluded this to my satisfaction and learning that only one of my enemies was now left in London, I was about to return when my movements were hastened by the news of this very remarkable Park Lane Mystery, which not only appealed to me by its own merits, but which seemed to offer some most peculiar personal opportunities.
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ContextHighlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
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