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The missing teammate is Godfrey Staunton and he disappeared with an older guy after sending a mysterious telegram. Holmes is so repulsed by Milverton that after watching the man murdered by one of his victims, he invokes his own moral philosophy by allowing her to get away with it.The titular emperors are actually just plaster busts and all signs point to their destruction being the work of a mentally disturbed immigrant. Holmes is called upon to determine which one of the title characters is cheater who took advantage of that opportunity afforded by the absent professor.Another tale of avenging an old betrayal is combined with the collection’s second suspect who will spend much of the story in a secret hiding place where Holmes and Watson have interrogated suspects before.Holmes is called in to investigate the disappearance of Godfrey Staunton. The supposed secretary hired a man named Reuben Hayes, to help him kidnap his younger half-brother in an effort to force his dad into making him a legitimate heir. By entering your email address you agree to receive emails from Shmoop and verify that you are over the age of 13. A revenge fantasy involves an old man faking his death so he can pin it on the son of the woman who rejected him many decades earlier. A distinctly unpleasant man is found dead with a harpoon sticking out of his body in a landlubber’s cabin. Gilchrist confesses and says he's leaving school to get a job. Holmes dramatically returns from the dead, or from being presumed dead. The young boy is recovered safely and is reunited with his parents.A ship captain named Peter Carey is found dead, stabbed through with a harpoon. The Return of Sherlock Holmes Summary The Adventure of the Empty House Holmes dramatically returns from the dead, or from being presumed dead. He goes to jail and Elsie Cubitt recovers from her suicide attempt.A woman named Violet Smith has had some weird things happen to her lately, and she hires Holmes and Watson to get to the bottom of things. Though that would be pretty awesome/weird. He was also the mystery biker who tried to protect her from Woodley.A young heir goes missing from a fancy boarding school, and the head of the school hires Holmes and Watson to find him. After some digging he realizes Mary Frasier is lying and confronts her with evidence that a man named Jack Crocker was involved. Holmes figures out that the statues were all made by the same person, and he connects the dots back to an Italian named Beppo, who hid something in one of the statues.

this section. Close Search Her older husband is dead. Holmes and Watson leave the grieving Godfrey in peace and return home.Stanley Hopkins returns again and gets Holmes and Watson to help him out on a home invasion/murder case. The boy’s German teacher also disappears, but is quickly found dead. Turns out Violet inherited a lot of money from her dead uncle and Woodley wanted to marry her so he could get it. Jack came to see Mary and was confronted by Sir Eustace, whom he killed in self-defense. He and Watson reunite to take down a would-be assassin of Holmes, and murderer of Ronald Adair, Colonel Moran.

Turns out Sir Eustace was an abusive husband and that Jack and Mary were really in love. Of which there seem to be more in the employment of the British government that should be allowed. Another wounded wife. They just sit on the nose and don't have any earpieces. Or perhaps someone much, much closer to the family?How often is a detective called upon to investigate death by harpoon and never even get the water, much less a boat? But what starts off as a weird nuisance quickly turns deadly after a statue owner finds a dead guy on his doorstep and a broken statue outside. Holmes agrees that Jack was justified and lets him go without reporting it to the police.Watson and Holmes are hired by the Prime Minister, Lord Bellinger, and the European Secretary, Trelawney Hope, to help recover a stolen political document. Peter Carey was an abusive jerk, so it's not surprising that he has enemies; but his murder is a total mystery. Finally, Holmes and Watson break into Milverton's house in an effort to get the incriminating letters back for their client. Afterwards, Jack, Mary, and her maid Theresa covered up the crime. "The Return of Sherlock Holmes Summary". Watson, being busy in his new household, is unable to attend Sherlock for a long time so has no news of his friend except for what he reads in newspapers. Holmes narrows down the suspects to three students who live nearby. By using some forensic science and staging a fake fire, Holmes is able to flush Oldacre out of hiding. Watson and Holmes do not go clubbing. James Wilder is no secretary at all, but the Duke's illegitimate son. Was it the work of local Gypsies? With Moran in jail Holmes can now safely return to London and resume his detective business.A young man named John Hector McFarlane is falsely accused of murdering Jonas Oldacre. Violet recently came in contact with two friends of her deceased uncle.

After some digging, Holmes realizes that Trelawney Hope's wife has the letter. The stories were published in the Strand Magazine in Great Britain, and Collier's in the United States.


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