Holmes explains that, in Aldershot Camp, Colonel James Barclay of The Royal Munsters and his wife Nancy DeVoy Barclay were a seemingly happy couple however, Barclay has died, and his wife is suspected of his murder. Holmes calls upon Watson at his surgery late one night to request his assistance in an investigation. ĭoyle ranked "The Adventure of the Crooked Man" 15th in a list of his 19 favourite Sherlock Holmes stories.
It was first published in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom in July 1893, and in Harper's Weekly in the United States on 8 July 1893. " The Adventure of the Crooked Man", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
The "Crooked Man" recognizes Nancy Barclay, 1893 illustration by Sidney Paget in The Strand Magazine
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