THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN - A SHERLOCK HOLMES ADVENTURE by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Arts, Fiction

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🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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0:00.0	Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. I'm going to. The Oh, The Adventure of the Dancing Men is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
0:55.0	It was first published in the Strand magazine in 1903 with illustrations by Sidney Paget.
1:01.0	It is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as the return of
1:05.0	Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked the adventure of the dancing men third in his
1:10.5	list of 12 favorite home stories.
1:13.0	This is one of only two Sherlock Holmes short stories
1:16.0	where Holmes' client dies after seeking his help.
1:19.0	The other is the Five Orange Pips,
1:21.0	part of the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
1:26.0	And now our story, the Adventure of the Dancing Men, a Sherlock Holmes mystery, by A Conan Doyle. Holmes had been seated for some hours in
1:38.1	silence with his long, thin back curved over a chemical vessel in which he was brewing a particularly melodorous
1:45.0	product. His head was sunk upon his breast and he looked from my point of view like a
1:49.9	strange lank bird with dull gray plumage and a black top nut.
1:57.0	So Watson, said he suddenly, you do not propose to invest in South African
2:02.4	securities?
2:04.6	I gave a start of astonishment.
2:06.5	Accustomed as I was to Holmes' curious faculties,
2:09.5	this sudden intrusion into my most intimate thoughts
2:12.0	was utterly inexplicable.
2:13.5	How on earth do you know that? I asked. He wheeled round upon his stool with a steaming test
2:20.5	tube in his hand and a gleam of amusement in his deep set eyes.
2:25.0	Now Watson, confess yourself utterly taken aback, said he.
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