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| Title: | The Adventure of the Golden Pince-nez | Collection: | The Return of Sherlock Holmes |
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| Year published: | 1904 (July) | Year set in: | 1894 |
| Mystery: | Who murdered a young secretary and why? | ||
| Apparent crime: | Murder | Actual crime: | Shown below (possible spoiler) |
| Summary: | A young secretary to a professor is found murdered with no obvious reason why. | ||
- Introduction
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Stanley Hopkins calls on Holmes for help in investigating the murder of a young secretary to Professor Coram. Nothing was stolen and the secretary had no known enemies. His last words suggested a woman was the killer.
- Actual crime
- Murder
- Explanation (spoiler alert)
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The Professor was actually a Russian who had betrayed a revolutionary group and the (accidental) killer was his wife who had been looking for documents that would help free a friend.
- Quotations in this story (1)
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Quote "What did you do, Hopkins, after you had made certain that you had made certain of nothing?"
- Characters in this story (3)
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Surname First name Title Holmes Sherlock Hopkins Stanley Inspector Watson John Doctor
- Locations in this story (1)
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Location Town/City County 221b Baker Street London
- Other notes
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- Keywords
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Yoxley Willoughby Smith Stanley Hopkins Professor Sergius Coram Marker Susan Tarlton Mortimer Anna Russia