I couldn't believe it when she said he had been in the Navy. I recalled the garrote knot, and I asked my wife if John was a sailor. Only a sailor, he said, would know such knots. The critical clue came when Holmes noticed that the rope she was tied up with had been tied with very complex knots. He staged a robbery by hiding some of the silver. He took a rope and tied her up, gagging her as well. He tried to cover it up with the wife and make it look like an intruder did it. It turns out that the scene was staged the woman's lover, a sailor, had killed the husband by hitting them with a poker after a brief struggle. The wife was very annoyed at having to be interviewed. She told the police that 3 robbers had come in, stolen some silver, and killed her husband after tying her up.

minimally foxy outer paper-edges slightly dusty OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY.I was reading through the Complete Novels and Stories of Sherlock Holmes, and I was surprised to see a case with a few similarities to Jonbenet's.Ī woman is found alive, tied and gagged in a chair, and her husband is nearby on the floor with his head smashed in. Joints, bottom of spine and sharp-corners somwhat-, top of spine and panels' corners minimally to slightly rubbed cloth-surface split at rearjoint between 5-cm fromt top to 6-cm from bottom with a few loose strings at both ends of the affected area front flyleaf with slight-, rear-fly with minor glueshadow foretitle sheet partly-, last page of ads. 'The Adventure of the Empty House' describes the circumstances of his survival and informs the reader that Holmes spent some time in Tibet in the meantime. Doyle published these new adventures of the famous detective after 'public demand' to revive his hero after his assumably death at Swiss Reichenbach Falls in 1893. 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes' is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in the 'Strand Magazine' in England and 'Collier's' in the United States in 1903 1904. Tarnhof'(or Tamhof?, ink) and a pencil reference possibly by the same hand 'Reichskanzlei / Berlin / Wilhelmstrass' (from the 1930ies to 1945 Adolf Hitler's residence with the Führerbunker underneath) above the printed foretitle. Books, / Paris, 224, rue de Rivoli / Nice, 8, Avenue Masséna', foretitle top-right with probably slightly later difficult-to-read holograph ownership-name 'B. circulating-library's - sticker of the period 'THE GAGLIANI LIBRARY / Engl. *** FIRST BOOK-EDITION, CLOTHBOUND ORIGINAL OF DOYLE'S THIRD COLLECTION OF SHERLOCK-HOLMES STORIES WITH AN INTERESTING HISTORY: Inner frontpal bottom-right with a bookseller's - resp. Publisher's gilt-titled blue cloth-binding 8vo.(ca. 'Illustrations', 401 (1) pages on thicker paper with 15 intercalated singleside printed plates of illustrations, (4) p. 1 blank sheet, Foretitlesh., Frontispice-plate, Titlesheet, 1 Sh.

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