Book details
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Korean edition · 얼룩무늬 끈
이른 아침 홈즈가 왓슨을 깨우며 시작되는 베이커 스트리트의 이야기.
Read this edition →An opening sentence
ON glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.
Series and reading order
Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes · 1892 · Short story 8
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 · 2026-10-11
- Editorial notes
- The full English story is retained. Illustrations, captions and printed page numbers are omitted; whitespace is normalized. Original forms of address and claims about animals and poison are preserved.
- Work
- The Adventure of the Speckled Band
- Author
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Basis for original work rights
- A work by Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), first published in 1892. 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. 176–204
- 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.
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- https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/48320/pg48320-images.html
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