1923 Short Stories (Study Guide) - The Adventure of the Creeping Man, the Lurking Fear, Hypnos, the Sniper, the Captain's Doll (Paperback)

This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Adventure of the Creeping Man, the Lurking Fear, Hypnos, the Sniper, the Captain's Doll, the Debut of Battling Billson, No Wedding Bells for Him, First Aid for Dora, Ukridge's Accident Syndicate, Ukridge Sees Her Through, the Long Arm of Looney Coote, the Exit of Battling Billson, Ukridge's Dog College, the Return of Battling Billson, a Married Man's Story, Spurs, the Horror at Martin's Beach, a Little Woman, the Canary, the Ladybird, up in Michigan. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Adventure of the Creeping Man, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Mr. Trevor Bennett comes to Holmes with a most unusual problem. He is Professor Presbury's personal secretary, and Mr. Bennett is also engaged to the professor's only daughter, Edith. Professor Presbury is himself engaged to a young lady, Alice Morphy, a colleague's daughter, although he himself is already sixty-one years old. Their impending marriage does not seem to have caused a great scandal; so that is not Mr. Bennett's problem. Nonetheless, the trouble seems to have begun at about the time of Professor Presbury's and Alice's engagement. First, the professor suddenly left home for a fortnight without telling anyone where he was going. He returned looking rather travel-worn. It was only through a letter from a friend sent to Mr. Bennett that the family learnt that Professor Presbury had been to Prague. Also, the professor's usually faithful wolfhound has taken to attacking him on occasion, and has had to be tied up outside. Holmes knows from his study of dogs that this is significant. Upon returning from Prague, Professor P...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=133815