John Watson is fascinated by the Adair murder case. In common with most other people in London, Dr. Ronald Adair's partnership at cards with Colonel Moran had proved profitable for the young man, the two men had won four hundred and twenty-five pounds a few days earlier. He lost a small amount of money which he could easily afford. Murray, Sir John Hardy and Colonel Moran. Ronald Adair is known to have played cards for money earlier that day with Mr. The bedroom door was locked from the inside and there was no sign of anyone having entered or left through the window. Nothing was stolen from Ronald Adair's bedroom, coins and banknotes were found stacked in neat piles on a table next to a list of names. He was killed by a single shot to the head, the bullet being one from a revolver. The Honorable Ronald Adair, a young man with no known enemies, has been found dead in the bedroom of the Park Lane home which he shared with his mother and sister. The story takes place in the spring of 1894. Watson does not know that he has bumped into Holmes in disguise. "The Adventure of the Empty House" is included in a list of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's twelve favorite Sherlock Holmes compiled for the magazine The Strand in 1927 and a list of the ten best Sherlock Holmes short stories which were voted for by the readers of The Baker Street Journal in 1959. There have been numerous adaptations of "The Adventure of the Empty House" to other media, often in combination with elements taken from other stories about Holmes and Watson. He also informs him that his life is still in danger. Holmes explains to his friend how and why he faked his death.
Out of curiosity, Watson goes to Park Lane, where he bumps into an old man whom he later finds out is Holmes in disguise. John Watson, the story's narrator, reads of the unexplained murder of the Honorable Ronald Adair at his home in Park Lane and attempts to solve the mystery.
It is notable for being the story in which Sherlock Holmes, who had been killed off in the 1893 short story " The Final Problem", is revealed to be still alive and ready to have many more adventures. It appears as the first story in the 1905 anthology The Return of Sherlock Holmes. "The Adventure of the Empty House" is a Sherlock Holmes short story by the British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. For the ghost story by Algernon Blackwood, see The Empty House (Blackwood).įirst page of an adaptation of "The Adventure of the Empty House" which appears in the first (and only) issue of DC Comics' Sherlock Holmes from October 1975.
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