-- From the day of our birth till we leave mortality behind us the hand of fate is weaving unseen threads into the pattern of our lives, binding together events in such a way that an episode in one life may unexpectedly influence the next. For most these tenuous links are of no more consequence than a chance meeting - but for one such as Sherlock Holmes, whose skein is wound tightly with the threads of so many remarkable events and people, every day brings with it the chance some invisible strand will pull him into the very heart of a surprising criminal affair. --
"It was the Season of Murder. Polly Nichols was first to fall, a poor woman in the oldest and most dangerous of professions. Three more swiftly followed. No one dared guess when the nightmare might end ... no one except Sherlock Holmes. And he had his hands full with other terrible men, beside whom Jack the Ripper was an amateur."
"...when startled by a gunshot which nearly deafened me. Convulsively I hurled my paper into the air! only to see between its fluttering pages the crouching figure of Holmes pulling at a string tied to a revolver, 'Sorry Watson, I didn't realize it was such a cannon. Did I disturb you?'"
The Case of the Imitation Thief
"Ten months of robbery you consider nuisance work?"
The Case of the Too Obvious Clues
"It had been two days since the mysterious disappearance of Sherlock Holmes."
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