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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Topic

Solving problems Confoundment

Speaker

Sherlock Holmes

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source

The Red-Headed League

Medium

Short story Magazine

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1891 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

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

Current Citation

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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Topic
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Author

Robert Louis Stevenson
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1893 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Letter to S.R. Crockett. 15 Aug. 1893.

Current Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Selected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Ernest Mehew. Yale University Press, 2001, ch. 15.