Bibliograph

Sherlock Holmes and the Boscombe Valley mystery

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Label

Sherlock Holmes and the Boscombe Valley mystery

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Sherlock Holmes and the Boscombe Valley mystery

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

On the case with Holmes and Watson, #10

Summary

In "The Boscombe Valley Mystery", Inspector Lestrade summons Holmes to a community in Herefordshire, where a local landowner has been murdered outdoors. The deceased's estranged son is strongly implicated. Holmes, employing his trusty magnifying glass quickly determines that a mysterious third man may be responsible for the crime, unraveling a thread involving a secret criminal past, thwarted love, and blackmail. This is the fourth of the twelve stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and was first published in the Strand Magazine in 1891

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Boscombe Valley mystery

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