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| Title: | The Adventure of the Six Napoleons | Collection: | The Return of Sherlock Holmes |
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| Year published: | 1904 (April) | Year set in: | |
| Mystery: | Why is someone smashing busts of Napoleon? | ||
| Apparent crime: | Theft and murder | Actual crime: | Shown below (possible spoiler) |
| Summary: | Three identical busts of Napoleon have been stolen and smashed. Lestrade asks Holmes for advice. | ||
- Introduction
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Lestrade comes to see Holmes because someone has been burgling houses, stealing identical busts of Napoleon, and smashing them. He suspects that it is someone with a mental condition but Holmes thinks that it is something more.
- Actual crime
- Theft and murder
- Explanation (spoiler alert)
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A man had stolen a jewel and, while working with the moulding of the busts, had hidden it in one of them. He was smashing them to try and find it.
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- Characters in this story (3)
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Surname First name Title Holmes Sherlock Lestrade 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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Lestrade Morse Hudson bust Napoleon Barnocot Horace Harker Gelder Devine Italian Beppo Pietro Venucci Lucretia Chiswick Laburnum VIlla Josiah Brown Sandeford Harding black pearl Borgias