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| Title: | The Adventure of the Three Students | Collection: | The Return of Sherlock Holmes |
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| Year published: | 1904 (June) | Year set in: | 1895 |
| Mystery: | Who looked at an examination paper before the exam? | ||
| Apparent crime: | Cheating | Actual crime: | Shown below (possible spoiler) |
| Summary: | Shortly before an important examination at a university, someone takes a look at the test paper. There are three suspects. | ||
- Introduction
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While staying in a university town, Holmes is visited by a tutor, Hilton Soames, who is due to act as examiner in a Greek exam. While his door was unlocked, someone had entered his room and copied some of the exam question. Three students live above his rooms and Soames suspects one of them.
- Actual crime
- Cheating
- Explanation (spoiler alert)
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Holmes worked out the guilty student who had been aided by Soames' servant who knew him as a child.
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- Characters in this story (3)
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Surname First name Title Holmes Sherlock Soames Hilton Watson John Doctor
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- Keywords
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Hilton Soames Fortescue Scholarship Greek Bannister Johann Faber Jabez Gilchrist Daulat Miles McLaren