怪诞案件的开端(1) The Five Orange Pips When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes cases between the years ' 82 and ' 90 ,
I am faced by so many which present strange and interesting features that it is no easy matter to know which to choose and which to leave .
Some , however , have already gained publicity through the papers , and others have not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend possessed in so high a degree ,
and which it is the object of these papers to illustrate . Some , too , have baffled his analytical skill , and would be , as narratives , beginnings without an ending ,
while others have been but partially cleared up , and have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to him .
There is , however , one of these last which was so remarkable in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted to give some account of it
in spite of the fact that there are points in connection with it which never have been , and probably never will be , entirely cleared up .
The year ' 87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater or less interest , of which I retain the records . Among my headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the adventure of the Paradol Chamber ,
of the Amateur Mendicant Society , who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a furniture warehouse , of the facts connected with the loss of the British bark Sophy Anderson ,
of the singular adventures of the Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa , and finally of the Camberwell poisoning case . In the latter , as may be remembered , Sherlock Holmes was able , by winding up the dead man ' s watch ,
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