In the story, Inspector Hopkins of Scotland Yard asks the brilliant consulting detective Sherlock Holmes to help him investigate the murder of Peter Carey, a former captain of a whaling ship whose nickname was Black Peter. The body of Peter Carey was found in a wooden hut in which he used to sleep, pinned to the wall by one of his own harpoons. A notebook with the initials J.H.N. was found at the scene of the crime. When a man named John Hopley Neligan is caught trying to break into Peter Carey's wooden hut, Inspector Hopkins believes that he has found the murderer. Holmes, however, is unconvinced.
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| - In the story, Inspector Hopkins of Scotland Yard asks the brilliant consulting detective Sherlock Holmes to help him investigate the murder of Peter Carey, a former captain of a whaling ship whose nickname was Black Peter. The body of Peter Carey was found in a wooden hut in which he used to sleep, pinned to the wall by one of his own harpoons. A notebook with the initials J.H.N. was found at the scene of the crime. When a man named John Hopley Neligan is caught trying to break into Peter Carey's wooden hut, Inspector Hopkins believes that he has found the murderer. Holmes, however, is unconvinced.
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| - In the story, Inspector Hopkins of Scotland Yard asks the brilliant consulting detective Sherlock Holmes to help him investigate the murder of Peter Carey, a former captain of a whaling ship whose nickname was Black Peter. The body of Peter Carey was found in a wooden hut in which he used to sleep, pinned to the wall by one of his own harpoons. A notebook with the initials J.H.N. was found at the scene of the crime. When a man named John Hopley Neligan is caught trying to break into Peter Carey's wooden hut, Inspector Hopkins believes that he has found the murderer. Holmes, however, is unconvinced. "The Adventure of Black Peter" has been adapted for radio, film and television.
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