The Adventure of the Dancing Men - Definition and Overview

The Adventure of the Dancing Men
Author	Arthur Conan Doyle
Released	1903
Series	The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Client(s)	?
Set in	Unknown
Villain(s)	Abe Slaney

The Adventure of the Dancing Men, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

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Holmes is given the above code to crack, which he eventually does by frequency analysis. He rushes down to his client's house...only to find three shots had been fired: one missing entirely, one killing his client, and one wounding his client's wife. He cracks the case eventually, as well as the code.

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Authors and illustrators: Arthur Conan Doyle \| Adrian Conan Doyle \| John Dickson Carr \| Nicholas Meyer \| Sidney Paget
Novels: A Study in Scarlet \| The Sign of Four \| The Hound of the Baskervilles \| The Valley of Fear
Short Story Collections: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes \| The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes \| The Return of Sherlock Holmes \| His Last Bow \| The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes
Short Stories: A Scandal in Bohemia \| The Red-Headed League \| A Case of Identity \| The Boscombe Valley Mystery \| The Five Orange Pips \| The Man with the Twisted Lip \| The Blue Carbuncle \| The Speckled Band \| The Engineer's Thumb \| The Noble Bachelor \| The Beryl Coronet \| The Copper Beeches \| Silver Blaze \| The Cardboard Box \| The Yellow Face \| The Stockbroker's Clerk \| The Gloria Scott \| The Musgrave Ritual \| The Reigate Squire \| The Crooked Man \| The Resident Patient \| The Greek Interpreter \| The Naval Treaty \| The Final Problem \| The Empty House \| The Norwood Builder \| The Dancing Men \| The Solitary Cyclist \| The Priory School \| Black Peter \| Charles Augustus Milverton \| The Six Napoleons \| The Three Students \| The Golden Pince-Nez \| The Missing Three-Quarter \| The Abbey Grange \| The Second Stain \| Wisteria Lodge \| The Red Circle \| The Bruce-Partington Plans \| The Dying Detective \| The Disappearance of Lady Francis Carfax \| The Devil's Foot \| His Last Bow \| The Illustrious Client \| The Blanched Soldier \| The Mazarin Stone \| The Three Gables \| The Sussex Vampire \| The Three Garridebs \| Thor Bridge \| The Creeping Man \| The Lion's Mane \| The Veiled Lodger \| Shoscombe Old Place \| The Retired Colourman
Characters: Irene Adler \| The Baker Street Irregulars \| Mycroft Holmes \| Inspector Lestrade \| Professor Moriarty \| Dr. Watson \| Inspector Hopkins \| List of Sherlock Holmes Inspectors
Pastiches: The Canary Trainer \| The Seven-Per-Cent Solution \| Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century
Places: 221B Baker Street \| The Diogenes Club \| Reichenbach Falls

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