WIST Quotations

Doyle, Arthur Conan -- Story (1923-03), “The Adventure of the Creeping Man,” The Strand Magazine, Vol 65

Dave — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:15:48 +0000

It was one Sunday evening early in September of the year 1902 that I received one of Holmes’s laconic messages: “Come at once if convenient — if inconvenient come all the same. — S. H.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1923-03), “The Adventure of the Creeping Man,” The Strand Magazine, Vol 65
(Source)

Doyle, Arthur Conan -- “The Adventure of the Creeping Man,” Strand Magazine (Mar 1923)

Dave — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 22:50:12 +0000

It was one Sunday evening early in September of the year 1903 that I received one of Holmes’s laconic messages: “Come at once if convenient — if inconvenient come all the same. S.H.'”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
“The Adventure of the Creeping Man,” Strand Magazine (Mar 1923)
(Source)

Reprinted in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927).