Book details
A Case of Identity
Korean edition · 사라진 신랑
난로를 사이에 둔 대화와 한 방문객의 의뢰로 시작되는 홈즈 단편.
Read this edition →An opening sentence
“MY dear fellow,” said Sherlock Holmes, as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, “life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
Series and reading order
Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes · 1892 · Short story 3
Holmes and Watson follow small clues through the cases of Baker Street, one story at a time.
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- Edition
- English original · en-v1 · 2026-09-27
- Editorial notes
- The full English story is retained. Illustrations, captions, printed page numbers and the section heading are omitted; whitespace is normalized.
- Work
- A Case of Identity
- Author
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Basis for original work rights
- A work by Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), first published in 1891. The original is beyond South Korea's copyright term of 70 years after the author's death. The 1892 US edition used as the English source is also out of copyright in the United States.
- Source edition
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1892, pp. 56–75
- Transcription and attribution
- Project Gutenberg #48320. Transcription by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team from scans supplied by the Internet Archive/American Libraries. Source credit only; this edition is independently prepared.
- Source URL
- https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/48320/pg48320-images.html
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