He liked playing whist and regularly did so at several clubs, but never for great sums of money. Adair was in his sitting room, working on accounts of some kind, as indicated by the papers and money found by police. On the night of March 30, an apparently unsolvable locked-room murder takes place in London: the killing of the Honourable Ronald Adair, son of the Earl of Maynooth, a colonial governor in Australia. The story takes place in 1894, three years after the apparent death of Sherlock Holmes. The Hound of the Baskervilles had seen the return of a pre-Reichenbach Falls Sherlock Holmes, which whetted readers' appetites.ĭoyle ranked "The Adventure of the Empty House" sixth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. This is the first Holmes story set after his supposed death at the Reichenbach Falls, as recounted in "The Final Problem". Public pressure forced Conan Doyle to bring the sleuth back to life, and explain his apparently miraculous survival after his deadly struggle with Professor Moriarty in " The Final Problem". It was first published in Collier's in the United States on 26 September 1903, and in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom in October 1903. " The Adventure of the Empty House", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. 1903 illustration by Sidney Paget in The Strand Magazine
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