It is cocaine...a seven-per-cent solution. Would you care to try it?

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Sign of Four

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Topic

Cocaine Drugs

Speaker

Sherlock Holmes

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source

The Sign of Four

Medium

Novel Magazine

Genre

Detective fiction

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1890 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Doyle, Arthur. "The Sign of the Four; or, The Problem of the Sholtos." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. London: Lippincott's, 1890, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Doyle, Arthur. The Sign of Four. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2009, ch. 1.

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Source
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Medium
Novel Magazine
Language
English
Time
1890 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Philadelphia, July 1890, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 4.

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Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.

Matthew 26:14-15

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Judas
Source
Gospel of Matthew The Bible
Medium
Scripture
Genre
Religious literature
Statement Type
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Language
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Time
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Era
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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 26:14-15).