My Friend the Murderer

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Genre: Mystery

Language: English

My Friend the Murderer is a short story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first published in the London Society magazine in december 1882, signed A. Conan Doyle.

 

"Number 481 is no better, doctor," said the head-warder, in a slightly reproachful accent, looking in round the corner of my door.
"Confound 481" I responded from behind the pages of the Australian Sketcher.
"And 61 says his tubes are paining him. Couldn't you do anything for him?"
"He is a walking drug-shop," said I. "He has the whole British pharmacopaæ inside him. I believe his tubes are as sound as yours are."
"Then there's 7 and 108, they are chronic," continued the warder, glancing down a blue slip of paper. "And 28 knocked off work yesterday—said lifting things gave him a stitch in the side. I want you to have a look at him, if you don't mind, doctor.