by Arthur Conan Doyle
This is a great mystery, told in the same sparse but eloquent style used with the Holmes stories. I could, and did as I was reading, nitpick about a few things, which is why I went with 4 stars. Don't ask me what they were though; I just finished it, and yet can't put my finger on what I found lac...
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7964I John Fothergill West, student of law in the University of St. Andrews, have endeavoured in the ensuing pages to lay my statement before the public in a concise and business-like fashion.
First sentence: "I John Fothergill West, student of Law in the University of St. Andrews, have endeavoured in the ensuing pages to lay my statement before the public in a concise and business-like fashion."P. 99: "My sister's white, anxious face stood out in the obscurity with a startling exactness ...
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