The Adventure of the Dancing Men
- The Dancing Men
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- Adventure of the Dancing Men, The
- Type
- Short Story
- Language
- English
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Wikipedia
"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.
Annotation
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
| Name | Format | ISBN | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Return of Sherlock Holmes | eBook | ? | 1995-02-01 |
| Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume I | Paperback | 0-553-21241-9 | 2003-09 |
| The Return of Sherlock Holmes | eBook | ? | 2006-03-08 |
| The Return of Sherlock Holmes | eBook | ? | 2018-09-04 |
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- The Adventure of the Dancing Men was written by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Adventure of the Dancing Men has translation Die tanzenden Männchen
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- 2023-03-12