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I. A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
I. To Sherlock Holmes she is always _the_ woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but a...
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II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door b...
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III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“My dear fellow,” said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, “life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in...
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IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran in this way: “Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air an...
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V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
"When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes cases\nbetween the years ’82 and (...TRUNCATED)
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VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
"Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal of the\nTheological College of St. (...TRUNCATED)
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VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
"I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second morning\nafter Christmas, with the inte(...TRUNCATED)
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VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
"On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have\nduring the last eight years stu(...TRUNCATED)
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IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
"Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr.\nSherlock Holmes, for solution duri(...TRUNCATED)
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X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
"The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have long\nceased to be a subject of inte(...TRUNCATED)
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Sherlock Holmes Corpus

Full-text corpus of 55 Sherlock Holmes short stories for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

Dataset Structure

{
  "id": "a_scandal_in_bohemia",
  "title": "A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA",
  "collection": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes",
  "content": "To Sherlock Holmes she is always _the_ woman..."
}

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

corpus = load_dataset("Alleinzellgaenger/sherlock-holmes-corpus", split="train")

Contents

Complete short story collections:

  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (12 stories)
  • The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (12 stories)
  • The Return of Sherlock Holmes (13 stories)
  • His Last Bow (7 stories)
  • The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (11 stories)

License

Public domain (Project Gutenberg texts)

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