the case which i call the norwood builder began for us in a very dramatic way homes and i had just finished a late breakfast one morning and we were talking in our sitting room in baker street holmes was about to open his morning newspaper when we heard a iot of noise outide a moment later someone was knocking at the door very hard then the door opened and a young man rushed in his face was pale and his fiar hair and his clothes were untidy his blue eyes were frightened he had obyiously been running and he was breathing heavily