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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.”
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.
vi, 85 pages : 20 cm. Reading level: 3 [orange] Previously published: Addison Wesley Longman, 1996. A scandal in Bohemia -- The red-headed league -- The Boscombe Lake mystery -- The blue diamond -- The single man -- The copper beeches.
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)
He was still, as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police.
He was still, as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which had been aban-doned as hopeless by the official police.