# The Adventure of the Dying Detective

Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930

Genre: Detective Fiction

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2347

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Adventure+of+the+Dying+Detective+Doyle&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Mrs. Hudson, the landlady of Sherlock Holmes, was a long-suffering woman. Not only was her first-floor flat invaded at all hours by throngs of singular and often undesirable characters but her remarkable lodger showed an eccentricity and irregularity in his life which must have sorely tried her patience. His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London. On the other hand, his payments were princely. I have no doubt that the house might have been purchased at the pric...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventure-of-the-dying-detective-2347/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-adventure-of-the-dying-detective-2347/chapters/2/index.md)