| Title: | The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk | Collection: | The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes |
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| Year published: | 1893 (March) | Year set in: | |
| Mystery: | Why did a man offer a clerk a position and pretend to be two brothers? | ||
| Apparent crime: | Robbery | Actual crime: | Shown below (possible spoiler) |
| Summary: | An unemployed clerk, about to take up a new position, is offered a job by a man who then appears disguised as his brother. | ||
- Introduction
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A stockbroker's clerk, Hall Pycraft, applies for a position in a firm but, just before he is about to take it up, a man appears and offers him another position. The location of the company is basic and suspicious, and Pycraft recognises that the man at the company is actually the original man in disguise.
- Actual crime
- Robbery
- Explanation (spoiler alert)
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The plot was to lure the clerk away from the original job who was then impersonated by another man with the intention of robbing the company.
- Quotations in this story (0)
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Quote There are no quotes for this story
- Characters in this story (3)
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Surname First name Title Holmes Sherlock Pycraft Hall 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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This plot is quite similar to "The Red-Headed League" with a man being given a fake job to keep him away from a robbery.
- Keywords
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Hall Pycraft Birmingham Coxon Woodhouse Drapers Gardens Mawson Williams Lombard Hampstead Potters Terrace Arthur Harry Pinner Beddington Tuson Pollack Franco Midland Hardware Corporation