The game is afoot!

There's a game played in the Book Talk group that I thought would work well for our Baker Street group. Basically, a line or passage is given from one of the stories in the canon. After somebody correctly identifies which story it is from, they post the next quotation.

Anybody up for a game? If so, I'll begin with something easy:

"Our researches have evidently been running on parallel lines, and when we unite our results I expect we shall have a fairly full knowledge of the case."

The Hound of the Baskervilles, but of course :)

"I was only testing you, and you ring true every time."

sounds like 'Abbey Grange' to me.

"Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace."

Took me a little searching. At first I thought of the Boscombe Valley Mystery, but that "commonplace" quote is not the correct one. Your quote is from "A Case of Identity."

"You are right, Watson," said he. "It does seem a very preposterous way of settling a dispute."

"Your quote is from "A Case of Identity.""

just so!

and i have the scene of your quote vividly in my mind, but i can't remember the story as yet (Watson is amazed at how Holmes can know his innermost thoughts).
perhaps when i get off work, if no one else has replied by then.

You are right about the scene. Now just identify the story that scene with that quote is in.

Since nobody has come up with the story, let me add a 2nd clue.

"You are right, Watson," said he. "It does seem a very preposterous way of settling a dispute."

is the quote already given. A second quote from the same story:

"I may say with confidence that he never had occasion to regret his speculation. From the first it was a success. A few good cases and the reputation which I had won in the hospital brought me rapidly to the front, and during the last few years I have made him a rich man."

the first quote is from 'The Cardboard Box', but i don't remember that last part being from the same story.
it almost sounds like 'The Resident patient'.

i guess it'as time to "make a long arm"...

Both quotes are from The Resident Patient. However, interestingly you are also right about the first quote. Doyle must have liked that scene alot to use it twice.

Your turn.

a very interesting phenomenon you have uncovered CD1am.
i couldn't find the reference to the "preposterous dispute" at all in my Reader's Digest' edition of 'The Resident Patient. so i checked in my Pebbles Library edition and there it was!
finding this an interesting turn, i triple-checked in my Octopus edition of 'The Celebrated Cases of Sherlock Holmes (Complete & Unabridged)', but no such reference.
thoroughly confused now, i turned to my very old A.L. Burt reprint of the 1894 Harper & Brothers edition of 'The Memoirs... and it was there!

now it doesn't surprise that the Reader's Digest version was 'condensed', but the Octopus claims to be "complete and unabridged".
i wonder if this is another case of the American edition being different than the original, similar to 'The Sign of Four' and 'The Sign of THE Four'?

okay, while we ponder that here's the next quote...

"I observe that there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is introspective, and i want to introspect."

nobody?

I'll take a punt.

The Red Headed League?

yes, we have a winner!

okay, your turn...

"Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to the sound produced by cocking a rifle."

A nice and easy one.

oh yes, 'The Five Orange Pips'.

Check. Over to you.

let's try this one;

"After all Watson... I am not retained by the police to supply their deficiencies."

Definitely "The Blue Carbuncle", one of my favorite Holmes stories.

You are correct sir!

(FYI, I'm a she.)

Next one:

"What the deuce is the matter with the dog?" growled Holmes. "They surely would not take a cab or go off in a balloon."

we must be talking about Toby here, and therefore it is 'The Sign of Four'.

(and sorry CD1am, i was just quoting Ed McMahon).

(oh)

Correct! Your turn.

okay, this one might be a bit tougher;

"I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety..."

(Holmes to Watson)

stumped?

The Empty House?

"The Empty House?"

very good!
your turn.

okay then, since this one has gotten stagnant, i'll go again...

"I wish I knew how you reach your results."

"I reached this one by sitting upon five pillows and consuming an ounce of shag."

anybody?

I haven't been online much lately, so didn't realize you posted again, Enodia. But I'll have to mull on this one. Be back in a few days (tho I might not be back till next week).