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Although the story is presented as having been written by Dr. John Watson, unusually for a Sherlock Holmes story, the main narrator of "The Musgrave Ritual" is not Dr. Watson but Holmes himself. The story begins with Dr. Watson complaining about the untidy habits of his housemate Sherlock Holmes and asking Holmes to do some tidying up. Holmes returns from his bedroom with a large metal box, ostensibly to put some papers related to his past cases in it. The box contains documents relating to Holmes' early cases from the time before he met Watson. Inside the large metal box, Holmes finds a smaller wooden box which contains a piece of paper, an old key, a wooden peg attached to some string and some old rusty coins. Holmes explains that those objects are the only reminders he has of the Case o

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rdfs:label	The Musgrave Ritual
rdfs:comment	Although the story is presented as having been written by Dr. John Watson, unusually for a Sherlock Holmes story, the main narrator of "The Musgrave Ritual" is not Dr. Watson but Holmes himself. The story begins with Dr. Watson complaining about the untidy habits of his housemate Sherlock Holmes and asking Holmes to do some tidying up. Holmes returns from his bedroom with a large metal box, ostensibly to put some papers related to his past cases in it. The box contains documents relating to Holmes' early cases from the time before he met Watson. Inside the large metal box, Holmes finds a smaller wooden box which contains a piece of paper, an old key, a wooden peg attached to some string and some old rusty coins. Holmes explains that those objects are the only reminders he has of the Case o
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abstract	Although the story is presented as having been written by Dr. John Watson, unusually for a Sherlock Holmes story, the main narrator of "The Musgrave Ritual" is not Dr. Watson but Holmes himself. The story begins with Dr. Watson complaining about the untidy habits of his housemate Sherlock Holmes and asking Holmes to do some tidying up. Holmes returns from his bedroom with a large metal box, ostensibly to put some papers related to his past cases in it. The box contains documents relating to Holmes' early cases from the time before he met Watson. Inside the large metal box, Holmes finds a smaller wooden box which contains a piece of paper, an old key, a wooden peg attached to some string and some old rusty coins. Holmes explains that those objects are the only reminders he has of the Case of the Musgrave Ritual. Watson wants to hear about the case and Holmes, happy to avoid having to tidy up, is pleased to tell him about it. Reginald Musgrave, who knew Holmes at university, hires him to investigate the disappearance of his butler Richard Brunton and his maid Rachel Howells. The butler disappeared shortly after he was found reading a copy of the Musgrave Ritual, a series of questions and answers that members of the Musgrave family have long recited when they reach adulthood but which are generally considered to be meaningless. Holmes deduces that Brunton discovered the hidden meaning behind the Musgrave Ritual and that, if he can do the same, he will solve the mystery of the two servants' disappearance. Two short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Gold-Bug" and "The Cask of Amontillado", probably served as inspiration for the tale. "The Musgrave Ritual" is included in a list of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's twelve favorite Sherlock Holmes stories which the author compiled for The Strand magazine in 1927 and in a list of the ten best Sherlock Holmes stories which were voted for by readers of The Baker Street Journal in 1959. There have been numerous adaptations of the story to other media.

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