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The Adventure of the Dancing Men

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Adventure of the Dancing Men, The
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Short Story
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English
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"The Adventure of the Dancing Men" is a Sherlock Holmes story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as one of 13 stories in the cycle published as The Return of Sherlock Holmes in 1905. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom in December 1903, and in Collier's in the United States on 5 December 1903.

This is one of only two Sherlock Holmes short stories where Holmes' client dies after seeking his help. Holmes's solution to the riddle of the dancing men rests on reasoning that closely resembles that of Legrand in Poe's "The Gold Bug."

The original title was The Dancing Men, when it was published as a short story in The Strand Magazine in December 1903.

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Detective short story first published in The Strand Magazine, December 1903. It is part of the Sherlock Holmes series and appeared in the collection The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905).

Last modified: 2020-10-10 (revision #31507)

Editions

NameFormatISBNRelease Date
The Return of Sherlock HolmeseBook?1995-02-01
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume IPaperback0-553-21241-92003-09
The Return of Sherlock HolmeseBook?2006-03-08
The Return of Sherlock HolmeseBook?2018-09-04
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3627032
Wikidata Work ID
Q2042919

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