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The mystery concerns a clever secret writing disguised as a child's drawing. Holmes is consulted by a Norfolk squire whose American wife is inexplicably terrified by the strange hieroglyphics. Although Holmes deciphers the code, he arrives in Norfolk too late to warn his client of the terrible danger from his wife's past. Dismayed by the tragedy, the great detective resolves to bring the criminal to justice.

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  • The mystery concerns a clever secret writing disguised as a child's drawing. Holmes is consulted by a Norfolk squire whose American wife is inexplicably terrified by the strange hieroglyphics. Although Holmes deciphers the code, he arrives in Norfolk too late to warn his client of the terrible danger from his wife's past. Dismayed by the tragedy, the great detective resolves to bring the criminal to justice.
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  • The mystery concerns a clever secret writing disguised as a child's drawing. Holmes is consulted by a Norfolk squire whose American wife is inexplicably terrified by the strange hieroglyphics. Although Holmes deciphers the code, he arrives in Norfolk too late to warn his client of the terrible danger from his wife's past. Dismayed by the tragedy, the great detective resolves to bring the criminal to justice. The 1923 silent movie The Mystery of the Dancing Men is based on "The Adventure of the Dancing Men." The story has also been adapted for radio many times and for television twice, with Peter Cushing (1968) and Jeremy Brett (1984) as Sherlock Holmes.
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