'My ancestors were country squires'

'This inhospitable town'

'You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive'

'He is the Napoleon of crime'

'You should publish an account of the case'

'I've had to do with fifty murderers'

'The many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I have figured'

'I should never marry

'

'I travelled for two years in Tibet'

'I then passed through Persia

'

'I hear of Sherlock everywhere'

'Occasional indiscretions of his own'

'A small farm upon the downs'

'There's an east wind coming'

'The greatest mystery for last'.