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Summary
Background
“A Scandal in Bohemia”
“The Red-Headed League”
“A Case of Identity”
“The Boscombe Valley Mystery”
“The Five Orange Pips”
“The Man with the Twisted Lip”
“The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle”
“The Adventure of the Speckled Band”
“The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb”
“The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor”
“The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet”
“The Adventure of the Copper Beeches”
Character Analysis
Themes
Symbols & Motifs
Important Quotes
Essay Topics
Chapter Summaries & Analyses
A young orphan woman, Violet Hunter, comes to Holmes for advice on whether to accept a strange, but well-paying position in the countryside. She is a governess and her potential employers, a well-off landowner and his second wife, want her to take care of their young son, but also to fulfill strange requests, such as cutting off her beautiful hair, wearing a specific dress, and sitting by the window for long periods.
Holmes suspects something is amiss but does not believe there to be an immediate danger. The young woman accepts the job as she is destitute and after a few weeks telegraphs Holmes to come and help her. While living in the manor, called the Copper Beeches, she has discovered that someone is being kept locked in one of the wings. The detective concludes that it is the family’s older daughter, who has the right to a large part of the estate. She was engaged to marry a local man, but her father did not want to lose the money, so he and his second wife locked her up after an illness. Violet resembles her and was hired to fool the fiancé into thinking that the daughter no longer wants to marry him.
By Arthur Conan Doyle
A Case Of Identity
A Case Of Identity
Arthur Conan Doyle
A Scandal in Bohemia
A Scandal in Bohemia
Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle
His Last Bow
His Last Bow
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World
The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of the Four
The Sign of the Four
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Valley of Fear
The Valley of Fear
Arthur Conan Doyle