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One of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

It's one of 13 stories in the cycle. written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

It's one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

Doyle ranked the adventure of the Priory School 10th in his list of his 12 favorite Holmes stories.

In this story Holmes receives a visit from Dr. Thornycroft-Hugstable, the founder and principal

of a preparatory school called Priory School in Northern England.

He beseaches homes to come back to Mackelton with him to look into the kidnapping of one of

his pupils.

The boy's father, the Duke of Holderness, has all of his Lord Saltier is and a further 1,000 pounds to anyone who can tell him who his kidnappers are.

And now the story, the adventure of the Priory School, Part 1.

We have had some traumatic entrances and exits upon our small stage at Baker Street,

but I cannot recollect anything more sudden and startling than the first appearance of

Thorny Craft Huxtable, MA, PhD, etc.

His card, which seemed too small to carry the weight of his academic distinctions, preceded

him by a few seconds, and then he entered himself, so large, so pompous, and so dignified that he was the very embodiment of self-possession and

solidity.

And yet, his first action when the door had closed behind him was to stagger against the

table whence he slipped down upon the floor

and there was that majestic figure prostrate and insensible upon our bare-skin

hearth rug. We had sprung to our feet and for a few moments we stared in

silent amazement at this ponderous piece of wreckage, which told of some sudden and fatal

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