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1  Once only he paused in his patient investigation.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
2  The line of investigation which I have myself been pursuing.
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ContextHighlight   In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
3  You start me on my investigation with a very serious handicap.
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ContextHighlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
4  But the incident is an admirable starting-point for an investigation.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
5  There have been further and sinister developments in the investigation at Norwood.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
6  The old hall, oak-panelled and high-windowed, had been turned into a court of investigation.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
7  The first positive sign which he gave me of the direction which his investigation was taking was an extraordinary one.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
8  The country inspector's face had shown his intense amazement at the rapid and masterful progress of Holmes's investigation.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
9  In this early stage, I want you to realize those geographical features which may have a good deal to do with our investigation.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
10  When the nobleman and his secretary had left, my friend flung himself at once with characteristic eagerness into the investigation.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
11  You can hardly find a flaw in the case which can now be presented against him, and all further investigation has served to strengthen it.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER
12  I only mention it because, if I had been handling the case, I should have been inclined to make that the starting-point of my investigation.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
13  But this particular sample is so short that I can do nothing, and the facts which you have brought me are so indefinite that we have no basis for an investigation.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
ContextHighlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
14  For this reason I will now lay before the reader the facts connected with Miss Violet Smith, the solitary cyclist of Charlington, and the curious sequel of our investigation, which culminated in unexpected tragedy.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
15  All day I turned these facts over in my mind, endeavouring to hit upon some theory which could reconcile them all, and to find that line of least resistance which my poor friend had declared to be the starting-point of every investigation.
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ContextHighlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
16  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.
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ContextHighlight   In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE
17  Holmes's quiet day in the country had a singular termination, for he arrived at Baker Street late in the evening, with a cut lip and a discoloured lump upon his forehead, besides a general air of dissipation which would have made his own person the fitting object of a Scotland Yard investigation.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
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