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“The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia.”
speaking country—in Bohemia, not far from Carls-bad. ‘Remarkable as being the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous glass-factories and paper-mills.’ Ha, ha, my boy, what do you make of that?” His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue triumphant cloud from his cigarette. “The paper was made in Bohemia,” I said.
"The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia."
“Scandal in Bohemia” introduces Irene Adler, a clever woman who becomes Holmes’s love interest in subsequent stories. Adler has a compromising photo of the King of Bohemia that Holmes and trusted-accomplice Watson must recover.
A Scandal in Bohemia. by Arthur Conan Doyle. →. related portals: Mystery. sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons category, Wikidata item. Versions of A Scandal in Bohemia include: "A Scandal in Bohemia", as originally published in The Strand Magazine (1891) "A Scandal in Bohemia", as collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892 ...
Scandal in Bohemia. by. Arthur Conan Doyle; Pearson Education Staff. Publication date. 2008. Publisher. Pearson Education, Limited. Collection. internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled.
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- The document is the beginning of a short story titled "A Scandal in Bohemia" by Arthur Conan Doyle. It introduces Sherlock Holmes receiving a mysterious letter requesting a meeting that evening with a masked visitor who desires to consult Holmes on a matter of great importance.
“The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia.”
A scandal in Bohemia. by. Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930, author. Publication date. 2017. Topics. Detective and mystery stories. Publisher. Baltimore, Maryland : The Gunston LLC Trust.