It is quite a three-pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Red-Headed League

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Red-Headed League." The Strand Magazine. London: August 1891.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Red-Headed League." The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2010.

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It is quite a three-pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

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