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From the years 1894 to 1901,

inclusive, Mr. Sherlock Holmes was a very busy man. It is safe to say

that there was no public case of any difficulty in which he was not consulted during those

eight years and there were hundreds of private cases,

some of them of the most intricate and extraordinary character in which he played a prominent

part.

Many startling successes and a few unavoidable failures were the outcome of this long

period of continuous work. As I have preserved very full notes of all these cases, and was myself personally engaged

in many of them, it may be imagined that it is no easy task to know which I should select

to lay before the public.

I shall, however, preserve my former rule and give the preference to those

cases which derive their interest not so much from the brutality of the crime, as from the ingenuity

and dramatic quality of the solution.

For this reason I will now lay before the reader the facts connected with Miss Violet Smith,

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