"A Scandal in Bohemia," by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

In which Mr Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson engage in Royal Intrigue, and in which our narrator promptly forgets his forswearing of British Accents, acquitting himself "Passably," yet manages a German accent "Most Atrociously," or "Perhaps Russian?"



Sidney Paget's illustrations are not quite as well-known anymore as John Tenniel's ones for Alice, but they still helped create the visual image of Holmes that continues to this day: