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The Veiled Lodger. —. " The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place " is the last of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. The story is part of the short story collection The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in the US in Liberty in March 1927. [1] It was published in the UK in The Strand Magazine in April ...
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"The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short-stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was first published in The Strand Magazine from October 1921 - April 1927 with illustrations by Frank Wiles and is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes.
Head trainer John Mason from Shoscombe Old Place, a racing stable in Berkshire, comes to Holmes about his master, Sir Robert Norberton. Mason thinks he has gone mad. Sir Robert’s sister, Lady Beatrice Falder owns Shoscombe, but it will revert to her late husband’s brother when she dies. The stable has a horse, Shoscombe Prince, who Sir Robert hopes will win the Derby. He would be out of debt if that actually happened.
Mason is not quite sure what he wants Holmes to investigate, but a number of odd changes have happened at the stable:
•Why has Lady Beatrice suddenly forgone her usual habit of stopping to greet her favorite horse? Why does she just ride on by in her carriage?
•Why has Sir Robert become so wild-eyed lately?
•Why has he given his sister’s dog away to a neighborhood innkeeper?
•Why does he go to the old crypt at night, and who is that man that he meets there?
•The original title of "The Adventure of the Black Spaniel" was changed before publication.
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The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place. The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place (SHOS) is a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in the Liberty magazine, 5 march 1927 (US). This is the 60th Sherlock Holmes story. Collected in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes.
Shoscombe Old Place: Directed by Patrick Lau. With Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, Robin Ellis, Elizabeth Weaver. Sir Robert Norberton, a race horse owner, is under a lot of pressure due to his debts and has been acting strange of late.
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"The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place" is a Sherlock Holmes short story by the British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was first published in the March 5, 1927, issue of the Liberty magazine in the United States and in the April 1927 issue of the Strand Magazine in England. The story was later collected in The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (1927). Although the story was placed second to last ...
The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place Page 01. The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place. Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes had been bending for a long time over a low-power microscope. Now he straightened himself up and looked round at me in triumph. It is glue, Watson, said he. Unquestionably it is glue. Have a look at these scattered objects in ...
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The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place is believed to be set in 1901 or 1902. It is one of 12 Sherlock Holmes short stories in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in 1927. Holmes and Watson are visited by John Mason Head Trainer to the maverick racehorse owner Sir Robert Norberton. Sir Robert lives with ...
