A Study in Scarlet (Serial Edition Cover) — page 46: what you’re looking at

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38 A STUDY IN SCARLET. “This case will make a stir, sir,” he remarked. ‘It beats anything I have seen, and I am no chicken “There is no clew,” said Gregson. “None at all,” chimed in Lestrade. Sherlock Holmes approached the body, and, kneeling down, examined it intently. “You are sure that there is no wound?” he asked, pointing to numerous gouts and splashes of blood whick lay all around. “ Positive!” cried both detectives. “Then, of course, this blood belongs to a second in- dividual—presumably the murderer, if murder has been committed. It reminds me of the circumstances attend- ant on the death of Van Jansen, in Utrecht, in the year 34. Do vou remember the case, Gregson? ” “No, sir.” “Read it up—you really should. There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before.” As he spoke, his nimble fingers were flying here, there, and everywhere, feeling, pressing, unbuttoning, examin- ing, while his eyes wore the same far-away expression which I have already remarked upon. So swiftly was the examination made that one would hardly have guessed the minuteness with which it was conducted. Finally, he sniffed the dead man’s lips, and then glanced at the soles of his patent-leather boots. “ He has not been moved at all?” he asked. “ No more than was necessary for the purpose of out examination.” “You can take him to the mortuary now,” he said. ‘7 here #s nothing more to be learned.” Gomichboo CSiG