'It is the Valley of Fear, the Valley of Death. The terror is in the hearts of the people from the dusk to the dawn. Wait, young...

'Down the Strand the lamps were but misty splotches of diffused light which threw a feeble circular glimmer upon the slimy...

'"Holmes!" I cried. "Is it really you? Can it indeed be that you are alive? Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of...

'He is the Napoleon of Crime... He is the organiser of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great...

'Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than...

'I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart.'

Scandal, treachery and...

'About to spring out upon my appalled senses, lurked all that was vaguely horrible, all that was monstrous and inconceivably...