The Return of Sherlock Holmes

I den tredje novellsamlingen om Sherlock Holmes finns följande berättelser:

The Adventure of the Empty House (svensk titel Det tomma huset)
The Adventure of the Norwood Builder (svensk titel Byggmästaren i Norwood)
The Adventure of the Dancing Men (svensk titel De dansande figurerna)
The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist (svensk titel Den ensamme cyklisten)
The Adventure of the Priory School (svensk titel Klosterskolan)
The Adventure of the Black Peter (svensk titel Svarte Petter)
The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton (svensk titel Charles Augustus Milverton)
The Adventure of the Six Napolenons (svensk titel De sex napoleonbysterna)
The Adventure of the Three Students (svensk titel De tre studenterna)
The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez (svensk titel Den guldbågade pincenén)
The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter (svensk titel Den försvunne rugbyspelaren)
The Adventure of the Abbey Grange (svensk titel Abbey Grange)
The Adventure of the Second Stain (svensk titel Den andra fläcken)

Utdrag ur boken:
(Ur The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter)

Things had indeed been very slow with us, and I had learned to dread such periods of inaction, for I knew by experience that my companion's brain was so abnormally active that it was dangerous to leave it without material upon which to work. For years I had gradually weaned him from that drug mania which had threatened once to check his remarkable career. Now I knew that under ordinary conditions he no longer craved for this artficial stimulus, but I was well awere that the fiend was not dead but sleeping, and I have known that the sleep was a light one and the waking near when in periods of idleness I have seen the drawn look upon Holme's ascetic face, and the brooding of his deep-set and inscrutable eyes. Therefore I blessed this Mr. Overton, whoever he might be, since he had come with his enigmatic message to break that dangerous calm which brought more peril to my friend than all the storms of his tempestuous life.

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