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- Herausgeber: Paperless
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Sprache: Englisch
When searching through Conan Doyle’s papers, Hesketh Pearson, a biographer of his, came across a plan for an unwritten story. As Richard Lancelyn Green notes, "there is no evidence to show that it is by [Conan Doyle] and strong internal evidence to suggest that it's not". Various authors have attempted to complete the story (named "The Adventure of the Tall Man" by Peter Haining) and put it alongside the canon. Some are very close to Doyle’s plot, others including variations. However no 'official' completion has been made (In the same way as "The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes" was intended as an official continuation of the canon).
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016
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The Adventure of the Tall Man
The Adventure of the Tall Man
A girl calls on Sherlock Holmes in great distress. A murder has been committed in her village—her uncle has been found shot in his bedroom, apparently through the open window. Her lover has been arrested. He is suspected on several grounds:
He has had a violent quarrel with the old man, who has threatened to alter his will, which is in the girl’s
favour
, if she ever speaks to her lover again.
A revolver has been found in his house, with his initials scratched on the butt and one chamber discharged. The bullet found in the dead man’s body fits this revolver.
He possesses a light ladder, the only one in the village, and there are marks of the foot of such a ladder on the soil below the bedroom window, while similar soil (fresh) has been found on the feet of the ladder.
His only reply is that he never possessed a revolver, and that it has been discovered in a drawer of the hatstand in his hall, where it would be easy for anyone to place it. As for the mould on the ladder (which he has not used for a month) he has no explanation whatever.
Notwithstanding these damning proofs, however, the girl persists in believing her lover to be perfectly innocent, while she suspects another man, who has also been making love to her, though she has no evidence whatever against him, except that she feels by instinct that he is a villain who would stick at nothing.
