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The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez - Definition

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The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez
Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Released 1904
Series The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Client(s) Inspector Stanley Hopkins
Set in Unknown
Villain(s) The strange lady "Anna"


The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez, 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.

A murder is commited and the murderer cannot be found. Holmes is called in and investigates a pair of golden pince-nez that were found in the clutch of the victim. He finds a plot against the Russian government is at the bottom of the case.

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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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