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conversations.value: Give me the first two paragraphs for a story with the title 'Sherlock Holmes'.
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conversations.value: Sherlock Holmes
  Apart from the fact that, as the story goes, they sent the offer by mistake to Walter's older brother, Sidney – who accepted the commission and produced more than 350 black-and-white illustrations for Holmes stories until his untimely death in 1908, aged just 48. Curiously, Walter did get to illustrate one Holmes adventure for the magazine – 'The Dying Detective', published in 1913 – but that was it.
  Original Sidney Paget illustrations were available for purchase by the public after they had appeared in The Strand Magazine, but today only 30 are known to exist, some most certainly destroyed by a fire at the magazine's offices. These pale wash drawings are now of great value. At a Sotheby's auction in London in July 1980, attended by this writer, three of the published illustrations were sold by one of Paget's sons. The cheapest auctioned for £950, the most expensive (probably because it came from The Hound of the Baskervilles) for £2,500. How cheap those prices now seem: admittedly an iconic piece of work, in 2004 the original drawing of Holmes and Moriarty fighting at Reichenbach Falls was auctioned for $220,000.
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conversations.value: Allowing for a certain degree of exaggeration and a touch of tautology, How pinpointed the appeal accurately. Yet neither he nor his interviewee could possibly have guessed at that point just how strong a hold Holmes would eventually have on the public's imagination, in both Britain and around the world.
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conversations.value: Give me the last five paragraphs.
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conversations.value: In 1974, the publishers John Murray released a new complete edition of all the stories. To lend the event some punch, special introductions to each volume were commissioned. The list of names of those who agreed to contribute was truly distinguished: Grahame Greene, C. P. Snow, Kingsley Amis, John Fowles, Angus Wilson, Hugh Greene, Eric Ambler, Len Deighton and Julian Symons.
  More directly relevant, perhaps, are the words of a poem entitled '221B' and written by the American enthusiast Vincent Starrett. There has never been a better summing-up:
  Stephen Fry © Freedom Fry – «Happy birthday to GNU» film crew, especially Matt Lee and Andrew Sampson, derivative work: Beao
  A unique collection of strange laws, heroic deeds, surprising revelations and other quirky stories that have shaped the unique history of Britain's capital. London's long history is an extraordinarily rich source of amazing facts, whether your interest is political, social, architectural or historical, you will find a variety of topics in this alternative guide to London.
  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, by photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission in writing from the publisher.
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conversations.value: No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, by photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission in writing from the publisher..
  All rights reserved. London's long history is an extraordinarily rich source of amazing facts, whether your interest is political, social, architectural or historical, you will find a variety of topics in this alternative guide to London. There has never been a better summing-up:
  Stephen Fry © Freedom Fry – «Happy birthday to GNU» film crew, especially Matt Lee and Andrew Sampson, derivative work: Beao
  A unique collection of strange laws, heroic deeds, surprising revelations and other quirky stories that have shaped the unique history of Britain's capital.
  More directly relevant, perhaps, are the words of a poem entitled '221B' and written by the American enthusiast Vincent Starrett. Snow, Kingsley Amis, John Fowles, Angus Wilson, Hugh Greene, Eric Ambler, Len Deighton and Julian Symons. P. The list of names of those who agreed to contribute was truly distinguished: Grahame Greene, C. To lend the event some punch, special introductions to each volume were commissioned.In 1974, the publishers John Murray released a new complete edition of all the stories
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conversations.value: Give me the first five paragraphs for this story.
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conversations.value: Sherlock Holmes
  I found the four men in varying degrees of readiness, a large star shape – the aforementioned pentacle, I presumed – was drawn on the floor and there lingered the distinct smell of burning wood and wax. I could only imagine that the floorboards had been singed once again. Each man was working to his own method:
  Dr Silence, his lips chattering away silently within the confines of his beard, appeared to be approaching matters purely internally. He stood facing one of the star's five points reciting whatever incantation gave him strength, occasionally tapping his finger against the seam of his trousers as if counting stanzas.
  Crowley was every inch the theatre satanist, dressed in flowing purple robes. He chanted loudly in Latin, dropping small nuggets of incense into a glowing censer. The incense flared and gave off balls of sweetsmelling white smoke. Looking at his eyes I could tell from his pupils that he had taken some form of drug. I recognised the look well enough from Holmes' dark days. I would later read an article by Crowley insisting that heavy drug use was an important part of achieving the correct mental state with which to conduct rituals. An article that did his credulity no favours at all in the eyes of the medical fraternity.
  Karswell appeared to be scribbling a series of foreign letters onto thick strips of parchment. Each piece would be carefully allowed to dry before being stacked in a small pile near the centre of the pentacle.
  Finally, Carnacki, who approached the business of demons like a scientist. He had wired a set of linked glass tubes to a large wooden box. And was currently loading a heavy revolver with cartridges containing rock salt and silver, a powerful calibre against the forces of darkness, he insisted.
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conversations.value: One by one we piled our bags on the back of each vehicle and split up so that Holmes, myself and Crowley went in one carriage while Carnacki, Silence and Karswell availed themselves of the other.
  The journey from Boleskine to Inverness was as lengthy as before and the snow-covered hills and glistening surface of the loch still cast a gloomy countenance around us. For all that, the journey seemed more charged and positive for we were now on the hunt, returning to London in force and with a plan – well, certainly an intent – to take the fight to the opposition.
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conversations.value: Lastly, thanks to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, for being a giant with shoulders broad enough for me to stand on.
  Imagine the twisted evil twins of Holmes and Watson and you have the dangerous duo of Professor James Moriarty—wily, snake-like, fiercely intelligent, terrifyingly unpredictable—and Colonel Sebastian 'Basher' Moran—violent, politically incorrect, debauched. Together they run London crime, owning police and criminals alike. When a certain Irene Adler turns up on their doorstep with a proposition, neither man is able to resist.
  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's timeless creation returns in a series of handsomely designed detective stories. The Further Adventures of encapsulates the most varied and thrilling cases of the world's greatest detective.
  It is 1888 and Queen Victoria has remarried, taking as her new consort Vlad Tepes, the Wallachian Prince infamously known as Count Dracula. His polluted bloodline spreads through London as its citizens increasingly choose to become vampires.
  In the grim backstreets of Whitechapel, a killer known as 'Silver Knife' is cutting down vampire girls. The eternally young vampire Geneviève Dieudonné and Charles Beauregard of the Diogenes Club are drawn together as they both hunt the sadistic killer, bringing them ever closer to Britain's most bloodthirty ruler yet.