Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes: 37 Short Stories plus a Complete Novel. Secaucus, N.J.: Castle, 1978. Print.
The Adventure of the Empty House is one of the short stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle writes about Sherlock Holmes. This story tell how Holmes comes back from what everyone thought was his apparent death at the hands of Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. Holmes (in disguise) surprises his faithful companion Dr. John H. Watson after bumping into him at as Watson was examining 427 Park Lane where a young gambler, Ronald Adair, was shot in a closed room. When Holmes follows Watson back to his house, he takes off his disguise and Watson, for the first and last time in his life, faints. Holmes then …show more content…
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes ; The Return of Sherlock Holmes ; A Study in Scarlet ; The Sign of Four ; The Hound of the Baskervilles. London: Octopus, 1981. …show more content…
Morstan comes to Sherlock Holmes and tells him all about her case. Ms. Morstan tells Holmes how her father Captain Morstan sent her a letter explaining that he had a 12-month leave and was coming home from India. When Ms. Morstan goes to meet her father at his hotel he is nowhere to be found and ends up going missing. A few years later, there was an ad in the newspaper asking for Ms. Morstan’s home address. She ends up giving her address and gets a very valuable pearl in the mail. Every year since then she has received another very valuable pearl. She has received six pearls all together. The sender of the pearls has now sent her a letter asking to meet her. She is allowed to bring two friends as long as they are not cops. Watson and Holmes agree to go with her. During the ride Ms. Mortsan goes into more detail and gives Holmes the some further evidence, including a letter she found among her father’s things. Holmes now has knowledge that Major Sholto was the only person her father knows in the city and therefore thinks that he knows where Ms. Mortsan’s father is. They go to Major Sholto’s son Thaddeus’s house where he explains that his and Ms. Mortsan’s father had found a treasure together. He instructs the brothers to give Ms. Mortsan her father’s share of the treasure. Just before he can tell Thaddeus and his twin brother where the treasure is, he dies. After some questioning, Holmes finds out that just before his death, Major Shalto had been deathly afraid of a
The Adventure of the Empty House is one of the short stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle writes about Sherlock Holmes. This story tell how Holmes comes back from what everyone thought was his apparent death at the hands of Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls. Holmes (in disguise) surprises his faithful companion Dr. John H. Watson after bumping into him at as Watson was examining 427 Park Lane where a young gambler, Ronald Adair, was shot in a closed room. When Holmes follows Watson back to his house, he takes off his disguise and Watson, for the first and last time in his life, faints. Holmes then …show more content…
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes ; The Return of Sherlock Holmes ; A Study in Scarlet ; The Sign of Four ; The Hound of the Baskervilles. London: Octopus, 1981. …show more content…
Morstan comes to Sherlock Holmes and tells him all about her case. Ms. Morstan tells Holmes how her father Captain Morstan sent her a letter explaining that he had a 12-month leave and was coming home from India. When Ms. Morstan goes to meet her father at his hotel he is nowhere to be found and ends up going missing. A few years later, there was an ad in the newspaper asking for Ms. Morstan’s home address. She ends up giving her address and gets a very valuable pearl in the mail. Every year since then she has received another very valuable pearl. She has received six pearls all together. The sender of the pearls has now sent her a letter asking to meet her. She is allowed to bring two friends as long as they are not cops. Watson and Holmes agree to go with her. During the ride Ms. Mortsan goes into more detail and gives Holmes the some further evidence, including a letter she found among her father’s things. Holmes now has knowledge that Major Sholto was the only person her father knows in the city and therefore thinks that he knows where Ms. Mortsan’s father is. They go to Major Sholto’s son Thaddeus’s house where he explains that his and Ms. Mortsan’s father had found a treasure together. He instructs the brothers to give Ms. Mortsan her father’s share of the treasure. Just before he can tell Thaddeus and his twin brother where the treasure is, he dies. After some questioning, Holmes finds out that just before his death, Major Shalto had been deathly afraid of a