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"The Adventure of the Crooked Man", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Crooked Man" fifteenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.

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  • The Adventure of the Crooked Man
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  • "The Adventure of the Crooked Man", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Crooked Man" fifteenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.
  • In the story, the brilliant consulting detective Sherlock Holmes is asked to investigate the mysterious death of Colonel James Barclay. Colonel Barclay was found dead and his wife was found unconscious inside a locked room. The key to the room could not be found on Mrs. Barclay, on her husband's body or anywhere in the room. Holmes finds footprints which tell him that the room was entered by another man who was accompanied by a small animal. "The Adventure of the Crooked Man" has been adapted for radio and television.
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  • Major Murphy
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  • 1893(xsd:integer)
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  • "The Adventure of the Crooked Man"
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  • Summer 1888 at Aldershot in Hampshire
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  • Henry Wood
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  • "The Adventure of the Crooked Man", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Crooked Man" fifteenth in a list of his nineteen favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.
  • In the story, the brilliant consulting detective Sherlock Holmes is asked to investigate the mysterious death of Colonel James Barclay. Colonel Barclay was found dead and his wife was found unconscious inside a locked room. The key to the room could not be found on Mrs. Barclay, on her husband's body or anywhere in the room. Holmes finds footprints which tell him that the room was entered by another man who was accompanied by a small animal. "The Adventure of the Crooked Man" has been adapted for radio and television.
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